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state
n. 1. Condition, situation. What's the state of your latest hack? It's winning away. The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state. The standard question What's your state? means What are you doing? or What are you about to do? Typical answers are about to gronk out , or hungry. Another standard question is What's the state of the world? , meaning What's new? or What's going on?. The more terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be State-p?. Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be state-p latest hack?. 2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic or human).