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The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Various
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:blast: 1. /v.,n./ Synonym for {BLT}, used esp. for large
data sends over a network or comm line. Opposite of {snarf}.
Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported. 2. vt.
[HP/Apollo] Synonymous with {nuke} (sense 3). Sometimes the
message `Unable to kill all processes. Blast them (y/n)?'
would appear in the command window upon logout.

:blat: /n./ 1. Syn. {blast}, sense 1. 2. See {thud}.

:bletch: /blech/ /interj./ [from Yiddish/German `brechen', to
vomit, poss. via comic-strip exclamation `blech'] Term
of disgust. Often used in "Ugh, bletch". Compare {barf}.

:bletcherous: /blech'*-r*s/ /adj./ Disgusting in design or
function; esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of
people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't
work very well, or are misplaced.) See {losing},
{cretinous}, {bagbiting}, {bogus}, and {random}. The
term {bletcherous} applies to the esthetics of the thing so
described; similarly for {cretinous}. By contrast, something
that is `losing' or `bagbiting' may be failing to meet
objective criteria. See also {bogus} and {random}, which
have richer and wider shades of meaning than any of the above.

:blink: /vi.,n./ To use a navigator or off-line message reader
to minimize time spent on-line to a commercial network service.
As of late 1994, this term was said to be in wide use in the UK,
but is rare or unknown in the US.

:blinkenlights: /blink'*n-li:tz/ /n./ Front-panel diagnostic
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