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prettyprint
/priteeprint/ , v. (alt.: pretty-print ) 1. To generate pretty human-readable output from a hairy internal representation; esp. used for the process of grind ing (sense 1) program code, and most esp. for LISP code. 2. To format in some particularly slick and nontrivial way.