2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
|
|
|
bamf
|
|
|
|
|
|
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
|
|
|
/bamf/ 1. [from X-Men comics; originally bampf ] interj. Notional sound made
|
|
|
|
|
by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often
|
|
|
|
|
used in virtual reality (esp. MUD ) electronic fora when a character wishes
|
|
|
|
|
to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. The sound of magical transformation,
|
|
|
|
|
used in virtual reality fora like MUDs. 3. In MUD circles, bamf is also used
|
|
|
|
|
to refer to the act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to
|
|
|
|
|
the MUD client to switch its connection to another server ( I'll set up the
|
|
|
|
|
old site to just bamf people over to our new location. ). 4. Used by MUDders
|
|
|
|
|
on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to
|
|
|
|
|
directing someone to another location or resource ( A user was asking about
|
|
|
|
|
some technobabble so I bamfed them to http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/.
|
|
|
|
|
|
