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frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a
   protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a `frob'
   is any random small thing; an object that you can comfortably hold
   in one hand; something you can frob (sense 2).  See frobnitz.
   2. vt.  Abbreviated form of frobnicate.  3. [from the MUD
   world] A command on some MUDs that changes a player's experience
   level (this can be used to make wizards); also, to request
   wizard privileges on the `professional courtesy' grounds
   that one is a wizard elsewhere.  The command is actually
   `frobnicate' but is universally abbreviated to the shorter
   form.