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@Begin
A Selection of AI Koans
A Story About `Magic'
abbrev
ABEND
About This File
accumulator
ACK
ad-hockery
Ada
adger
admin
ADVENT
AFJ
AI koans
AI-complete
AI
AIDS
AIDX
airplane rule
aliasing bug
all-elbows
alpha particles
alt bit
alt
altmode
Aluminum Book
amoeba
amp off
amper
angle brackets
angry fruit salad
annoybot
Anthromorphization
AOS
app
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
arena
arg
ARMM
armor-plated
asbestos cork award
asbestos longjohns
asbestos
ASCII art
ASCII
ASCIIbetical order
atomic
attoparsec
autobogotiphobia
automagically
avatar
awk
back door
backbone cabal
backbone site
backgammon
background
backspace and overstrike
backward combatability
Bad Thing
BAD
bag on the side
bagbiter
bagbiting
bamf
banana label
banana problem
bandwidth
bang on
bang path
bang
banner
bar
bare metal
barf
barfmail
barfulation
barfulous
barney
baroque
BASIC
batch
bathtub curve
baud barf
baud
baz
bboard
BBS
beam
beanie key
beep
beige toaster
bells and whistles
bells, whistles, and gongs
benchmark
Berkeley Quality Software
berklix
Berzerkeley
beta
BFI
bible
BiCapitalization
BIFF
Big Gray Wall
big iron
Big Red Switch
Big Room, the
big win
big-endian
bignum
bigot
bit bang
bit bashing
bit bucket
bit decay
bit rot
bit twiddling
bit-paired keyboard
bit
bitblt
BITNET
bits
bitty box
bixie
black art
black hole
black magic
blargh
blast
blat
bletch
bletcherous
blinkenlights
blit
blitter
blivet
BLOB
block transfer computations
block
Bloggs Family, the
blow an EPROM
blow away
blow out
blow past
blow up
BLT
Blue Book
Blue Glue
blue goo
blue wire
blurgle
BNF
boa
board
boat anchor
BOF
bogo-sort
bogometer
bogon filter
bogon flux
bogon
bogosity
bogotify
bogue out
bogus
Bohr bug
boink
bomb
bondage-and-discipline language
bonk/oif
book titles
boot
bottom feeder
bottom-up implementation
bounce message
bounce
boustrophedon
box
boxed comments
boxen
boxology
bozotic
BQS
brain dump
brain fart
brain-damaged
brain-dead
braino
branch to Fishkill
bread crumbs
break-even point
break
breath-of-life packet
breedle
bring X to its knees
brittle
broadcast storm
brochureware
broken arrow
broken
broket
Brooks's Law
BRS
brute force and ignorance
brute force
BSD
BUAF
BUAG
bubble sort
bucky bits
buffer overflow
bug-compatible
bug-for-bug compatible
bug
buglix
bulletproof
bum
bump
burble
buried treasure
burn-in period
burst page
busy-wait
buzz
BWQ
by hand
byte
bytesexual
bzzzt, wrong
C Programmer's Disease
C
calculator
can't happen
can
candygrammar
canonical
card walloper
careware
cargo cult programming
cascade
case and paste
casters-up mode
casting the runes
cat
catatonic
cd tilde
cdr
Ceremonial Chemicals
chad box
chad
chain
channel hopping
channel op
channel
chanop
char
charityware
chase pointers
check
chemist
Chernobyl chicken
Chernobyl packet
chicken head
chiclet keyboard
chine nual
Chinese Army technique
choke
chomp
chomper
CHOP
Christmas tree packet
Christmas tree
chrome
chug
Church of the SubGenius
CI$
Cinderella Book
Classic C
clean
CLM
clobber
clocks
clone-and-hack coding
clone
clover key
clustergeeking
COBOL fingers
COBOL
code grinder
code police
codes
codewalker
coefficient of X
cokebottle
cold boot
COME FROM
comm mode
command key
comment out
Commonwealth Hackish
Communication Style
compact
compiler jock
compress
Compu$erve
computer confetti
computer geek
computron
con
condition out
condom
confuser
connector conspiracy
cons
considered harmful
console jockey
console
content-free
control-C
control-O
control-Q
control-S
Conway's Law
cookbook
cooked mode
cookie bear
cookie file
cookie jar
cookie monster
cookie
copious free time
copper
copy protection
copybroke
copyleft
copywronged
core cancer
core dump
core leak
Core Wars
core
corge
cosmic rays
cough and die
cowboy
CP/M
CPU Wars
crack root
cracker
cracking
crank
CrApTeX
crash and burn
crash
crawling horror
cray instability
cray
crayola books
crayola
crayon
creationism
creep
creeping elegance
creeping featurism
creeping featuritis
cretin
cretinous
crippleware
critical mass
crlf
crock
cross-post
crudware
cruft together
cruft
cruftsmanship
crufty
crumb
crunch
cruncha cruncha cruncha
cryppie
CTSS
CTY
cube
cubing
cursor dipped in X
cuspy
cut a tape
cybercrud
cyberpunk
cyberspace
cycle crunch
cycle drought
cycle of reincarnation
cycle server
cycle
D. C. Power Lab
daemon
dangling pointer
dark-side hacker
Datamation
DAU
day mode
dd
DDT
de-rezz
dead code
dead
DEADBEEF
deadlock
deadly embrace
death code
Death Star
DEC Wars
DEC
decay
DEChead
deckle
DED
deep hack mode
deep magic
deep space
defenestration
defined as
dehose
delint
delta
demented
demigod
demo mode
demo
demon
depeditate
deprecated
deserves to lose
desk check
despew
Devil Book
devo
dickless workstation
dictionary flame
diddle
die horribly
die
diff
digit
dike
ding
dink
dinosaur pen
dinosaur
dinosaurs mating
dirtball
dirty power
disclaimer
Discordianism
disk farm
display hack
Dissociated Press
distribution
disusered
do protocol
doc
doco
documentation
dodgy
dogcow
dogpile
dogwash
domainist
Don't do that, then!
dongle-disk
dongle
donuts
doorstop
dot file
double bucky
double DECkers
doubled sig
down
download
DP
DPB
DPer
Dragon Book
dragon
drain
dread high-bit disease
DRECNET
Dress
driver
droid
drool-proof paper
drop on the floor
drop-ins
drop-outs
drugged
drum
drunk mouse syndrome
Duff's device
dumb terminal
dumbass attack
dumbed down
dump
dumpster diving
dup killer
dup loop
dusty deck
DWIM
dynner
earthquake
Easter egg
Easter egging
eat flaming death
EBCDIC
echo
Education
eighty-column mind
El Camino Bignum
elder days
elegant
elephantine
elevator controller
ELIZA effect
elvish
EMACS
Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions
email
emoticon
empire
engine
English
enhancement
ENQ
EOF
EOL
EOU
epoch
epsilon squared
epsilon
era, the
Eric Conspiracy
Eris
erotics
error 33
evil and rude
evil
exa-
examining the entrails
EXCH
excl
EXE
exec
exercise, left as an
external memory
eyeball search
face time
factor
fall over
fall through
fan
fandango on core
FAQ list
FAQ
FAQL
faradize
farkled
farming
fascist
fat electrons
faulty
fd leak
fear and loathing
feature creature
feature key
feature shock
feature
featurectomy
feep
feeper
feeping creature
feeping creaturism
feetch feetch
fence
fencepost error
fepped out
FidoNet
field circus
field servoid
Fight-o-net
File Attach
File Request
file signature
filk
film at 11
filter
Finagle's Law
fine
finger-pointing syndrome
finger
finn
firebottle
firefighting
firehose syndrome
firewall code
firewall machine
fireworks mode
firmy
FISH queue
fish
FITNR
fix
FIXME
flag day
flag
flaky
flamage
flame bait
flame on
flame war
flame
flamer
flap
flarp
flat-ASCII
flat-file
flat
flatten
flavor
flavorful
flippy
flood
flowchart
flower key
flush
flypage
Flyspeck 3
flytrap
FM
fnord
FOAF
FOD
fold case
followup
fontology
foo
foobar
Food
fool file, the
fool
Foonly
footprint
for free
for the rest of us
for values of
fora
foreground
fork bomb
forked
Format For New Entries
Fortrash
fortune cookie
forum
fossil
four-color glossies
fragile
fred
frednet
freeware
freeze
fried
frink
friode
fritterware
frob
frobnicate
frobnitz
frog
frogging
front end
frotz
frotzed
frowney
fry
FTP
FUBAR
fuck me harder
FUD wars
FUD
fudge factor
fudge
fuel up
fum
funky
funny money
furrfu
fuzzball
GĻodel, Escher, Bach
G
gabriel
gag
gang bang
garbage collect
garply
gas
gaseous
GC
GCOS
GECOS
gedanken
geef
geek out
gen
Gender and Ethnicity
gender mender
General Appearance
General Public Virus
generate
gensym
Geographical Distribution
Get a life!
Get a real computer!
GFR
gig
giga-
GIGO
gilley
gillion
GIPS
glark
glass tty
glass
glassfet
glitch
glob
glork
glue
gnarly
GNU
GNUMACS
go flatline
go root
go-faster stripes
gobble
Godzillagram
golden
golf-ball printer
gonk
gonkulator
gonzo
Good Thing
gorets
gorilla arm
gorp
GOSMACS
Gosperism
gotcha
GPL
GPV
grault
gray goo
Great Renaming
Great Runes
Great Worm, the
great-wall
Green Book
green bytes
green card
green lightning
green machine
Green's Theorem
grep
grilf
grind crank
grind
gripenet
gritch
grok
gronk out
gronk
gronked
grovel
grunge
gubbish
guiltware
gumby
gun
gunch
gurfle
guru meditation
guru
gweep
h
ha ha only serious
hack attack
hack mode
hack on
hack together
hack up
hack value
hack
hacked off
hacked up
hacker ethic, the
Hacker Speech Style
Hacker Writing Style
hacker
Hackers
hacking run
Hacking X for Y
Hackintosh
hackish
hackishness
hackitude
hair
hairy
HAKMEM
hakspek
hammer
hamster
hand cruft
hand-hacking
hand-roll
handle
handshaking
handwave
hang
Hanlon's Razor
happily
haque
hard boot
hardcoded
hardwarily
hardwired
has the X nature
hash bucket
hash collision
hat
HCF
heads down
heartbeat
heatseeker
heavy metal
heavy wizardry
heavyweight
heisenbug
Helen Keller mode
hello, sailor!
hello, wall!
hello, world
hex
hexadecimal
hexit
HHOK
HHOS
hidden flag
high bit
high moby
highly
hing
hirsute
HLL
hobbit
hog
holy wars
home box
home machine
hook
hop
hose
hosed
hot spot
house wizard
How Jargon Works
How to Use the Lexicon
HP-SUX
huff
humma
Humor, Hacker
hung
hungry puppy
hungus
hyperspace
hysterical reasons
I didn't change anything!
I see no X here.
IBM discount
IBM
ICBM address
ice
idempotent
If you want X, you know where to find it.
ifdef out
ill-behaved
Illuminatus!
IMHO
Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!
in the extreme
inc
incantation
include war
include
indent style
index
infant mortality
infinite loop
Infinite-Monkey Theorem
infinite
infinity
Information
initgame
insanely great
INTERCAL
interesting
International Style
Internet address
interrupt list, the
interrupt
interrupts locked out
Introduction
IRC
Iron Age
iron box
iron
ironmonger
ITS
IWBNI
IYFEG
J. Random Hacker
J. Random
jack in
jaggies
Jargon Construction
Jargon Lexicon Main Index
JCL
JEDR
JFCL
jiffy
job security
jock
joe code
jolix
JRST
JR[LN]
juggling eggs
jump off into never-never land
jupiter
K&R
K
kahuna
kamikaze packet
kangaroo code
ken
kgbvax
KIBO
kiboze
kick
kill file
killer micro
killer poke
kilo-
KIPS
KISS Principle
kit
klone
kludge
kluge around
kluge up
kluge
Knights of the Lambda Calculus
Knuth
kremvax
kyrka
lace card
language lawyer
languages of choice
larval stage
lase
laser chicken
Lasherism
laundromat
LDB
leaf site
leak
leaky heap
leapfrog attack
legal
legalese
LER
LERP
let the smoke out
letterbomb
lexer
lexiphage
Life is hard
Life with UNIX
life
light pipe
lightweight
like kicking dead whales down the beach
like nailing jelly to a tree
line 666
line eater, the
line noise
line starve
link farm
link-dead
lint
lion food
Lions Book
LISP
literature, the
lithium lick
little-endian
live data
Live Free Or Die!
livelock
liveware
lobotomy
locals, the
locked and loaded
locked up
logic bomb
logical
loop through
loose bytes
lord high fixer
lose lose
lose
loser
losing
loss
lossage
lost in the noise
lost in the underflow
lots of MIPS but no I/O
low-bandwidth
LPT
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology
lunatic fringe
lurker
luser
M
macdink
machinable
machoflops
Macintoy
Macintrash
macro-
macro
macrology
macrotape
maggotbox
magic cookie
magic number
magic smoke
magic
mailbomb
mailing list
main loop
mainframe
management
mandelbug
manged
mangle
mangler
mango
manularity
marbles
Marginal Hacks
marginal
marginally
marketroid
Mars
martian
massage
math-out
Matrix
maximum Maytag mode
Mbogo, Dr. Fred
meatware
meeces
meg
mega-
megapenny
MEGO
meltdown, network
meme plague
meme
memetics
memory farts
memory leak
memory smash
menuitis
mess-dos
meta bit
meta
metasyntactic variable
MFTL
mickey mouse program
mickey
micro-
MicroDroid
microfloppies
microfortnight
microLenat
microReid
Microsloth Windows
microtape
middle-endian
milliLampson
minifloppies
MIPS
misbug
Miscellaneous
misfeature
Missed'em-five
missile address
miswart
moby
mockingbird
mod
mode bit
mode
modulo
molly-guard
Mongolian Hordes technique
monkey up
monkey, scratch
monstrosity
monty
Moof
Moore's Law
moose call
moria
MOTAS
MOTOS
MOTSS
mouse ahead
mouse around
mouse belt
mouse droppings
mouse elbow
mouso
MS-DOS
mu
MUD
muddie
mudhead
multician
Multics
multitask
mumblage
mumble
munch
munching squares
munching
munchkin
mundane
mung
munge
Murphy's Law
music
mutter
N
nadger
nagware
nailed to the wall
nailing jelly
naive user
naive
NAK
nano-
nano
nanoacre
nanobot
nanocomputer
nanofortnight
nanotechnology
nasal demons
nastygram
Nathan Hale
nature
neat hack
neats vs. scruffies
neep-neep
neophilia
net.-
net.god
net.personality
net.police
NetBOLLIX
netburp
netdead
nethack
netiquette
netlag
netnews
netrock
netsplit
netter
network address
network meltdown
network, the
New Jersey
New Testament
newbie
newgroup wars
newline
NeWS
newsfroup
newsgroup
nick
nickle
night mode
Nightmare File System
NIL
Ninety-Ninety Rule
NMI
no-op
noddy
NOMEX underwear
Nominal Semidestructor
non-optimal solution
nonlinear
nontrivial
not ready for prime time
notwork
NP-
nroff
NSA line eater
nude
nuke
number-crunching
numbers
NUXI problem
nybble
nyetwork
Ob-
Obfuscated C Contest
obi-wan error
Objectionable-C
obscure
octal forty
Of Slang, Jargon, and Techspeak
off the trolley
off-by-one error
offline
ogg
old fart
Old Testament
one-banana problem
one-line fix
one-liner wars
ooblick
op
Open DeathTrap
open switch
open
operating system
optical diff
optical grep
optimism
Orange Book
oriental food
orphan
orphaned i-node
orthogonal
OS and JEDGAR
OS/2
OS
Other Interests
Other Lexicon Conventions
out-of-band
overflow bit
overflow pdl
Overgeneralization
overrun screw
overrun
P-mail
P.O.D.
padded cell
page in
page out
pain in the net
paper-net
param
PARC
parent message
parity errors
Parkinson's Law of Data
parm
parse
Pascal
pastie
patch space
patch
path
pathological
payware
PBD
PC-ism
PD
PDL
PDP-10
PDP-20
peek
pencil and paper
peon
percent-S
perf
perfect programmer syndrome
Perl
person of no account
Personality Characteristics
pessimal
pessimizing compiler
peta-
PETSCII
phage
phase of the moon
phase-wrapping
phase
phreaking
Physical Activity and Sports
pico-
pig, run like a
pilot error
ping
Pink-Shirt Book
PIP
pistol
pizza box
pizza, ANSI standard
plaid screen
plain-ASCII
plan file
platinum-iridium
playpen
playte
plingnet
plokta
plonk
plugh
plumbing
PM
pnambic
pod
point-and-drool interface
poke
Politics
poll
polygon pusher
POM
pop
POPJ
post
postcardware
posting
postmaster
PostScript
pound on
power cycle
power hit
PPN
precedence lossage
prepend
prestidigitization
pretty pictures
prettyprint
pretzel key
prime time
printing discussion
priority interrupt
profile
proglet
program
Programmer's Cheer
programming fluid
programming
Pronunciation Guide
propeller head
propeller key
proprietary
protocol
provocative maintenance
prowler
pseudo
pseudoprime
pseudosuit
psychedelicware
psyton
pubic directory
puff
punched card
punt
Purple Book
purple wire
push
quad
quadruple bucky
quantifiers
quantum bogodynamics
quarter
ques
quick-and-dirty
quine
quote chapter and verse
quotient
quux
qux
QWERTY
rabbit job
rain dance
rainbow series
random numbers
random
randomness
rape
rare mode
raster blaster
raster burn
rat belt
rave on!
rave
ravs
raw mode
rc file
RE
read-only user
Reading Habits
README file
real estate
real hack
real operating system
Real Programmer
Real Soon Now
real time
real user
Real World
real
reality check
reaper
rectangle slinger
recursion
recursive acronym
Red Book
red wire
regexp
register dancing
reincarnation, cycle of
reinvent the wheel
religion of CHI
Religion
religious issues
replicator
reply
restriction
retcon
RETI
retrocomputing
return from the dead
Revision History
RFC
RFE
rib site
rice box
Right Thing
RL
roach
robot
robust
rococo
rogue
room-temperature IQ
root mode
root
rot13
rotary debugger
round tape
RSN
RTBM
RTFAQ
RTFB
RTFM
RTFS
RTI
RTM
rude
runes
runic
rusty iron
rusty memory
S/N ratio
sacred
saga
sagan
SAIL
salescritter
salt mines
salt substrate
salt
same-day service
samizdat
samurai
sandbender
sandbox
sanity check
Saturday-night special
say
scag
scanno
schroedinbug
science-fiction fandom
scram switch
scratch monkey
scratch
scream and die
screaming tty
screw
screwage
scribble
scrog
scrool
scrozzle
scruffies
SCSI
ScumOS
search-and-destroy mode
second-system effect
secondary damage
security through obscurity
SED
segfault
seggie
segment
segmentation fault
segv
self-reference
selvage
semi-infinite
semi
senior bit
server
sex changer
SEX
Sexual Habits
shambolic link
sharchive
Share and enjoy!
shareware
shelfware
shell out
shell
shift left (or right) logical
shim
shitogram
short card
shotgun debugging
shovelware
showstopper
shriek
Shub-Internet
sidecar
sig block
sig quote
sig virus
SIG
signal-to-noise ratio
silicon
silly walk
silo
Silver Book
since time T equals minus infinity
sitename
skrog
skulker
slack
slap on the side
slash
sleep
slim
slop
slopsucker
slurp
smart terminal
smart
smash case
smash the stack
smiley
smoke and mirrors
smoke test
smoke
smoking clover
SMOP
smurf
SNAFU principle
snail-mail
snail
snap
snarf & barf
snarf down
snarf
snark
sneakernet
sniff
snivitz
SO
social engineering
social science number
soft boot
softcopy
software bloat
software laser
software rot
softwarily
softy
some random X
sorcerer's apprentice mode
SOS
Soundalike slang
source of all good bits
space-cadet keyboard
SPACEWAR
spaghetti code
spaghetti inheritance
spam
special-case
speedometer
spell
spelling flame
spiffy
spike
spin
spl
splash screen
splat
spod
spoiler
Spoken inarticulations
sponge
spoo
spooge
spool file
spool
square tape
stack puke
stack
stale pointer bug
state
steam-powered
stiffy
stir-fried random
stomp on
Stone Age
stone knives and bearskins
stoppage
store
strided
stroke
strudel
stubroutine
studly
studlycaps
stunning
stupid-sort
Stupids
Sturgeon's Law
sucking mud
sufficiently small
suit
suitable win
suitably small
sun lounge
sun-stools
sunspots
super source quench
superprogrammer
superuser
support
Suzie COBOL
swab
swap space
swap
swapped in
swapped out
swizzle
sync
syntactic salt
syntactic sugar
sys-frog
sysadmin
sysape
sysop
system mangler
system
systems jock
SysVile
T
tail recursion
talk mode
talker system
tall card
tanked
TANSTAAFL
tar and feather
taste
tayste
TCB
tea, ISO standard cup of
Technobabble
TechRef
TECO
tee
teledildonics
Telerat
TELNET
ten-finger interface
tense
tenured graduate student
tera-
teraflop club
terminak
terminal brain death
terminal illness
terminal junkie
terpri
test
TeX
text
thanks in advance
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
The Cuckoo's Egg
The Devil's DP Dictionary
The Devouring Fungus
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Jargon Lexicon
The Meaning of `Hack'
The Soul of a New Machine
The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
The Tao of Programming
the X that can be Y is not the true X
The `-P' convention
theology
theory
Things Hackers Detest and Avoid
thinko
This can't happen
This time, for sure!
thrash
thread
three-finger salute
thud
thumb
thunk
tick-list features
tick
tickle a bug
tiger team
time bomb
time sink
time T
times-or-divided-by
tip of the ice-cube
tired iron
tits on a keyboard
TLA
TMRC
TMRCie
to a first approximation
to a zeroth approximation
toast
toaster
toeprint
toggle
tool
toolsmith
topic drift
topic group
TOPS-10
TOPS-20
toto
tourist information
tourist
touristic
toy language
toy problem
toy program
toy
trampoline
trap door
trap
trash
trawl
tree-killer
treeware
trit
trivial
troff
troglodyte mode
troglodyte
Trojan horse
tron
True Names ... and Other Dangers
true-hacker
tty
tube time
tube
tunafish
tune
turbo nerd
Turing tar-pit
turist
TV Typewriters
tweak
tweeter
TWENEX
twiddle
twilight zone
twink
twirling baton
two pi
two-to-the-N
twonkie
UBD
UN*X
undefined external reference
under the hood
undocumented feature
uninteresting
UNIX brain damage
UNIX conspiracy
UNIX weenie
UNIX
unixism
unleaded
unswizzle
unwind the stack
unwind-protect
up
upload
upthread
urchin
USENET
user-friendly
user-obsequious
user
USG UNIX
UTSL
UUCPNET
vadding
vanilla
vannevar
vaporware
var
VAX
VAXectomy
VAXen
vaxherd
vaxism
vaxocentrism
vdiff
veeblefester
ventilator card
Venus flytrap
Verb Doubling
verbage
verbiage
Version 7
vgrep
vi
videotex
virgin
virtual Friday
virtual reality
virtual shredder
virtual
virus
visionary
VMS
voice-net
voice
voodoo programming
VR
Vulcan nerve pinch
vulture capitalist
wabbit
WAITS
waldo
walk off the end of
walk
walking drives
wall follower
wall time
wall
wallpaper
wango
wank
wannabee
warlording
warm boot
wart
washing machine
water MIPS
wave a dead chicken
Weaknesses of the Hacker Personality
weasel
wedged
wedgie
wedgitude
weeble
weeds
weenie
Weenix
well-behaved
well-connected
wetware
whack
whacker
whales
whalesong
What's a spline?
wheel bit
wheel wars
wheel
White Book
whizzy
WIBNI
widget
wiggles
WIMP environment
win big
win win
win
Winchester
window shopping
Windoze
winged comments
winkey
winnage
winner
winnitude
wired
wirehead
wirewater
wish list
within delta of
within epsilon of
Wizard Book
wizard mode
wizard
wizardly
womb box
WOMBAT
wonky
woofer
workaround
working as designed
worm
wound around the axle
wrap around
write-only code
write-only language
write-only memory
Wrong Thing
wugga wugga
wumpus
WYSIAYG
WYSIWYG
X
XEROX PARC
XOFF
XON
xor
xref
XXX
xyzzy
YA-
YABA
YAFIYGI
YAUN
Yellow Book
yellow wire
Yet Another
YKYBHTLW
You are not expected to understand this
You know you've been hacking too long when...
Your mileage may vary
Yow!
yoyo mode
Yu-Shiang Whole Fish
zap
zapped
zen
zero-content
zero
zeroth
zigamorph
zip
zipperhead
zombie
zorch
Zork
zorkmid
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