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1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in
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pronouncing a path in spoken hackish. In elder days this was considered a
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CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek ; but
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the spread of Unix has carried with it (esp. via the term path ) and it is
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now certainly the most common spoken name for !. Note that it is used
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exclusively for non-emphatic written ! ; one would not say Congratulations
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(except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to specify the
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exact characters foo! one would speak Eff oh oh . See shriek , ASCII. 2.
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interj. An exclamation signifying roughly I have achieved enlightenment! ,
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or The dynamite has cleared out my brain! Often used to acknowledge that one
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has perpetrated a thinko immediately after one has been called on it.
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