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/guhnch/

[TMRC]

vt. To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost produced the desired result. Implies a threat to mung.

/gən/

[ITS: from the :GUN command]

vt. To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career).

"Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it."

Compare can.

/guhm'bee/

[from a class of Monty Python characters, poss. themselves named after the 1960s claymation character]

n. An act of minor but conspicuous stupidity, often in gumby maneuver or pull a gumby.

/gilt'weir/

n. 

1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
2. Shareware that works.

/gə-bish/

[a portmanteau of garbage and rubbish?]

n. Garbage; crap; nonsense.

"What is all this gubbish?"

The opposite portmanteau rubbage is also reported.

/gruhnj/

n. 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so.

2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code.

/grä-vᵊl/

vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with 'over' or 'through'.

"The file scavenger has been groveling through the file directories for 10 minutes now."

Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form: 'grovel obscenely'.

2. To examine minutely or in complete detail.

"The compiler grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate it."

/gräŋked/

adj. 1. Broken.

"The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down."

2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick.

"I've been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am thoroughly gronked!"

Compare broken, which means about the same as gronk used of hardware, but connotes depression or mental/emotional problems in people.

/gräŋk au̇t/

vi. To cease functioning. Of people, to go home and go to sleep.

"I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow."

/gräŋk/

[popularized by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that]

vt. 

1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than to frob.
2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable.
3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".