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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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v. [NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie Tron ] To become inaccessible except via
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email or talk (1) , especially when one is normally available via telephone
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or in person. Frequently used in the past tense, as in: Ran seems to have
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tronned on us this week or Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron yourself.
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One may also speak of tron mode ; compare spod. Note that many dialects of
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BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that enables/disables line number
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tracing; this has no obvious relationship to the slang usage.
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