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hacking the mainframe 

smacking random buttons on your keyboard so it sound like your doing something really cool, and not looking while you do it.
hey are you smaking buttons on a keyboard? "no, im hacking the mainframe"

hacking the mainframe 

The result of bypassing the direct orthogonal tridimensional matrix. Not to be attempted by anyone less than Army-grade hacker certified. You need to go through at least 17 firewalls before you reach the matrix.
Yo, Jeremy, did you hack the mainframe last night?
hacking the mainframe by gt-skip April 15, 2005

Mainframe Master Race

A hypothetical step above PC master race. To have and run instead of a personal computer but a whole mainframe for say a company, school system, lab, university, clandestine group, pony fan art site etc.. Can be used as a complement for computer admins. Or a pejorative to make fun of the nature of PC elitists trying to build bigger computers.
Console peasant: what's your favorite game?
Ancient System administrator neck beard: Star trek.
Console peasant: Is that for ps3.

Ancient System administrator neck beard: No young one, it was on a SDS Sigma 7, in days of Glorious Mainframe Master Race Gaming. You even played it with print outs.......

mainframe 

What stupid people think computers are made of.
Wow, you build computers? You mean you build the mainframe and everything?

My computer doesn't work, I think there's something wrong with the mainframe.
mainframe by bomber991 December 25, 2008

optimised your mainframe gigabyte storage 

when you delete files that you have accidently left on your friends server but dont want them to know what you have done.
Ran: Holy crap my server is tottaly out of space.
Gary: Check again.
Ran: Oh what the?
Gary: yeah don't worry man i just optimised your mainframe gigabyte storage

Mainframe A 

A message board with around 40 members run by a smelly, mysterious, man who hates FG.
"Mainframe A is owned by a guy who hates FG."
Mainframe A by PenalMaster March 3, 2005
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proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
Word of the Day on October 29, 2026
The number of years you are still sexually active
While our lifespan is the number of years we will live, our healthspan is the number of healthy years we will have and our sexspan is is the number of years we will continue to be healthy enough to continue having an active sex life.
sexspan by Dr Kat April 21, 2022
Word of the Day on October 28, 2026
A lighthearted reaction upon receiving disappointing news of some sort. Usually something that isn't a particularly a big deal, esp. when it primarily affects someone else - sort of a mild schadenfreude. Sometimes doubled or tripled, and possibly said in a sing-songy voice for added comedic effect to imitate a muted trumpet, which is how the meme originated.
You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
womp by 175623226 November 3, 2011
Word of the Day on October 27, 2026
When your wife’s boyfriend let you sleep past 8pm 😎😎
Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
Poggers by Just_Charles April 14, 2020
Word of the Day on October 26, 2026

Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026

Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Word of the Day on October 24, 2026
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