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Raster Burn

A slang term used by hackers to describe Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS).

Irritation of the eyes that occurs after hours of staring into a LCD or CRT computer monitor, where the millions of phosphor dots start to "burn" your eyes. This happens especially after looking at plain text for hours, such as when writing code.

Using the green-over-black color scheme while coding reduces raster-burn, as does wearing lightly tinted sunglasses, especially if they are polarized.
"The mirrored sunglasses the teenager worn were round and black, John Lennon numbers. Worn to prevent "raster burn" from the phosphor dot symbols displayed on his screen." -Hackers, David Bischoff

guy 1- Damn, I got hella bad raster-burn from that 72 hour hacking marathon I pulled.

guy 2- I told you not to take all that vyvanse man!
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Rhyming slang for 'gurns' - i.e. Ecstasy pills.
'Let's have a night on the monty burns'

'I've got a fat bag of monty burns'
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When you eat alot of jalepeños and that same night you take a shit that brings a tear to your eye. Literally.
dude, i had a j burn and i couldn't sleep last night.
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rack burn

n. red marks and creases that appear on the face of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep.
From the bed head and rack burn, it was obvious to all on the bridge that ENS Martin had just been pulled from a nooner
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