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drop-ins
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n. [prob.: by analogy with drop-outs ] Spurious characters appearing on a
terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of
some sort. Esp.: used when these are interspersed with one's own typed
input. Compare drop-outs , sense 2.