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    n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    tar and feather


    [from UNIX `tar(1)'] vt. To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with `tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed `feathering' by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.