Definitions by VAKI5

BAGBITER 

Failing hardware or software.

This bagbiting system won't let me get out of spacewar.

BAGBITER by VAKI5 May 9, 2005

ABEND 

"ABnormal END" - Abnormal termination (of software); {crash}; {lossage}. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by hackers but seriously mainly by {code grinder}s. Usually capitalized, but may appear as `abend'. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called `abend' because it is what system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the German `Abend' = `Evening'.

ABEND is comin hardcore!

ABEND by VAKI5 May 9, 2005

accumulator 

1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in `A' derive from historical use of the term `accumulator' (and not, actually, from `arithmetic'). Confusingly, though, an `A' register name prefix may also stand for `address', as for example on the Motorola 680x0 family.

2. A register being used for arithmetic or logic (as opposed to addressing or a loop index), especially one being used to accumulate a sum or count of many items. This use is in context of a particular routine or stretch of code. "The FOOBAZ routine uses A3 as an accumulator."

3. One's in-basket (esp. among old-timers who might use sense 1).

You want this reviewed? Sure, just put it in the accumulator.

accumulator by VAKI5 May 9, 2005

basket case 

a person who is very nervous

If Gloria has one more crisis, she'll be a basket case.

basket case by VAKI5 May 9, 2005

junt 

A word popularized by 3-6 mafia to mean an item or thing.

Hell no, not at all. Y'all the type that make me throw my junt into the wall.

junt by VAKI5 May 8, 2005

jabitzer 

A pool (pocket billiards) term. The foul committed when the cue ball is struck twice. Specifically when that first little touch is followed by a reflexive jab at the cue ball. This is a portmanteau word that is, a word carrying two meanings. The stroke is a jabitzer; the cueist is also a jabitzer.

That was a jabitzer, DeWayne. Ball in hand.

jabitzer by VAKI5 May 8, 2005

jabooblescube 

A type of lolly that is both sugary and jelly-like at the same time.
The word originated as an attempt to describe onomatopoeiacally the taste of them!

On the way to Sydney, can we stop at the corner shop and get some jabooblescubes?

jabooblescube by VAKI5 May 8, 2005