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The best text-editor of all times. Even better than Vi. Millions of features, and entirely customisable. Not this long to load that Vi-fans would say. Emacs is available on almost every unix based system you can imagine, and also on Windows. With its tons of keyboard shortcuts and key bindings (also customisable), you will produce code faster you you have ever done
Vi is the only text editor I know in which you have to type commands to insert text...
emacs by jeremy__ June 5, 2005
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Huge text editor in unix, long to load but powerfull and apreciated by a large group of programmers. But Vi is faster ans better ... Also known as xemacs with graphics stuff.
I had that file to be edited, didn't have time to open emacs so I started Vi.
emacs by FinFiNeau March 15, 2005
I checked @elonmusksjet IG to get today's EMACs
EMACs by sl33v3 September 8, 2023

break out that emacs 

Popularized by Mark Zuckerberg in his blog and the motion picture "The Social Network." Anytime you use emacs. Hell, anytime you use any text editor. You know what? Whenever you're on a computer, doing anything at all.
Time to break out that emacs and edit that file.

GNU eMacs 

A mysterious program used for causing carpal tunnel syndrome.
GNU eMacs is Generally Never Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists.

Emanstrapation 

A word used for defining that which cannot be defined. Also Surves the purpose of making it seem as though you know "big words" at a time when you are lacking any.

varying forms of:
Emanstrapational
Emanstrapationist
Emanstrapate
and Emanstrate ing
"your just.....just......SO EMANSTRAPATIONAL!"

"oh stop being such an Emanstrapationist..."

"Don't Emanstrate to me man, your buggin' me out"

"you've got such an emanstrapational ego"
Emanstrapation by Eh-jhey April 9, 2010

emasculation

1. The removal of the penis and testicles. (removal of the testicles alone is called Castration)

2. Metaphorically, the removal of a male ego, pride, empowerment. Making a man subservient or in a 'feminine' role.
In the middle ages, emasculation was a form of punishment and public humiliation along with being hanged, drawn and quartered.
emasculation by Shaowfax2020 October 13, 2016
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fauxstalgia 

Faux nostalgia. Faking old things in an attempt to recapture the feeling of times gone past, especially of technology that has passed.
Hipstamatic pictures, just like the vinyl-static added to digital recordings, is prime fauxstalgia
fauxstalgia by scotte61 December 16, 2010
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pajama casual 

Pajama casual is a term used when working from home and preparing for a video conference. All business above the waist and your pajama pants down below.
We have a Zoom meeting in a few minutes and I’ll probably go pajama casual.
pajama casual by jrod-knows March 31, 2020
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funflation 

The recent boom in consumer spending on entertainment and experiences with a high demand running up the cost of enjoying of those experiences.
I’m trying to go to this Taylor Swift concert but the funflation has made it so impossible for me to afford tickets.
funflation by Dfree523 November 17, 2023
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A US deep south term for an alligator. Usually used in the Cajun dialect.
Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
swamp dog by Crystal Ambrose May 22, 2006
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