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gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To hack, usually at night. At
   WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the
   College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10
   or, later, the DEC-20.  The term has survived the demise of those
   technologies, however, and is still alive in late 1991.  "I'm
   going to go gweep for a while.  See you in the morning." "I gweep
   from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week."  2. n. One who habitually
   gweeps in sense 1; a hacker.  "He's a hard-core gweep,
   mumbles code in his sleep."