WhatIs

/sə-fi-shənt-lē smȯl/

adj. Syn. suitably small.

/sə-kiŋ məd/

[Applied Data Research]

adj. (also pumping mud) Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server. This Dallas regionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query.
"We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready to suck mud?"

/səb-shel/

[UNIX, MS-DOS]

n. An OS command interpreter (see shell) spawned from within a program, such that exit from the command interpreter returns one to the parent program in a state that allows it to continue execution.

Compare shell out; oppose chain.

/stü-pəd-sȯrt/

n. Syn. bogo-sort.

/stə-niŋ/

adj. Mind-bogglingly stupid. Usually used in sarcasm.

"You want to code *what* in ADA? That's... a stunning idea!"

/stəd-lē-kapz/

n. A hackish form of silliness similar to BiCapitalization for trademarks, but applied randomly and to arbitrary text rather than to trademarks. ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe.

/stəb-rü-tēn/

v.,n. 1. [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered.

2. To repeatedly call or check with someone:
"I keep polling him, but he's not answering his phone; he must be swapped out."

3. To ask.
"Lunch? I poll for a takeout order daily."

/strü-dᵊl/

n. Common (spoken) name for the circumflex (`, ASCII 1000000) character.

See ASCII for other synonyms.

/mənchiŋ/

n. Common name for the slant ('/', ASCII 0101111) character.

See ASCII for other synonyms.

See also Slash.

/stȯr/

[prob. from techspeak main store]

n. Preferred Commonwealth synonym for core. Thus, bringing a program into store means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being swapped in.