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tourist |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tourist \Tour"ist\, n. One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tourist n : someone who travels for pleasure [syn: {holidaymaker}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: tourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below {luser}. ITS hackers often used to spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare {twink}, {lurker}, {read-only user}. 2. [IRC] An {IRC} user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything see {channel hopping}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: touristA guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, {electronic mail}, {games} and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the {ITS} culture's penchant for six-letterisms). Compare {twink}, {read-only user}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10)
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