Technology Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Yahoo run n. The fact that she is putting a time limit and that travel agencies are already contacting you makes me feel that it is all a sham. I’ve had a few friends that were into all these Yahoo runs(419) and the way things are being played out is begining to seem quite familiar. [English Nigeria Crime & Prisons Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 22, 2006)

Z2K9 n. Apparently Zune 30s across the globe have suffered a simultaneous crash, coining the term “Z2K9,” even if 2009 hasn’t officially rolled around yet. Purportedly, starting at approximately midnight last night, Zunes with the latest firmware froze when they were turned on, just as their loading bars filled. [English Technology New or Nonce Acronym] [full cite] (Jan. 5, 2009)

zapper n. Thanks to a software program called a zapper, even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners can siphon cash from computer cash registers and cheat tax officials. [English Retail Technology Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 2, 2008)

zero-day adj. 0day is the list of vulnerabilities and exploits which have not been publicly acknowledged (SecurityFocus) or patched (vendors). No one knows about them. Since they’re not public knowledge, no one shares them. [English Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 15, 2004)

zillionics n. The data volume is growing to such levels of “zillionics” that we can expect science to compile vast combinatorial libraries, to run combinatorial sweeps through possibility space (as Stephen Wolfram has done with cellular automata), and to run multiple competing hypotheses in a matrix. [English Technology] [full cite] (Mar. 29, 2006)

zot v. Among the community of former Suicide Girls, this process has spawned a new verb: zotted. This process includes not only the alteration or deletion of unfriendly posts, but also the total removal of the offender from the online community. [ Language English Register Slang Subject Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 9, 2006)

zot v. I once got zotted from the Free Republic boards with one post in less than three minutes. [ Language English Register Slang Subject Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 9, 2006)

zot v. The closest is when one of my own characters commented on the fickle nature of the gods and was suddenly zotted by lightining and surrounded by frogs. [ Language English Subject Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 9, 2006)

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