beam

vt. [from Star Trek Classic's Beam me up, Scotty! ] 1. To transfer softcopy
of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as beam me a
copy or beam that over to his site. 2. Palm Pilot users very commonly use
this term for the act of exchanging bits via the infrared links on their
machines (this term seems to have originated with the ill-fated Newton
Message Pad). Compare blast , snarf , BLT.

