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frob |
2 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: frob /frob/ 1. n. [MIT; very common] 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 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: frob /frob/ 1. [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. Abbreviated form of {frobnicate}. 3. [{MUD}] A command on some {MUD}s 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 [{Jargon File}]
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