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    adj. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    locked and loaded

    [from military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] adj. Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for use --- that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded. Ironically, because their heads are `loaded' whenever the power is up, this description is never used of {Winchester} drives (which are named after a rifle).