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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
channel hopping
n. [common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly switch channels on IRC , or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party. This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, channel surfing.