:clover key: /n./ [Mac users] See {feature key}.

:clustergeeking: /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ /n./ [CMU] Spending
more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people
spend breathing.

:COBOL: /koh'bol/ /n./ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language]
(Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language
used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on
{dinosaur} mainframes. Hackers believe that all COBOL
programmers are {suit}s or {code grinder}s, and no
self-respecting hacker will ever admit to having learned the
language. Its very name is seldom uttered without ritual
expressions of disgust or horror. One popular one is Edsger W.
Dijkstra's famous observation that "The use of COBOL cripples the
mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal
offense." (from "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal
Perspective") See also {fear and loathing}, {software
rot}.

:COBOL fingers: /koh'bol fing'grz/ /n./ Reported from Sweden,
a (hypothetical) disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The
language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see
{candygrammar}); thus it is alleged that programming too much in
COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless
typing. "I refuse to type in all that source code again; it would
give me COBOL fingers!"

:code grinder: /n./ 1. A {suit}-wearing minion of the sort
hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies to