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  • chemist
    [Cambridge] n. Someone who wastes computer time on {number-crunching} when you'd far rather the machine were doing something more productive, such as working out... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


  •  View Definition: tanked 

    tanked


    adj. Same as down, used primarily by UNIX hackers. See also hosed. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk' by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip.