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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bagbiter</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bag-on-the-side.html" title="bag on the side"/><link rel="next" href="bagbiting.html" title="bagbiting"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bagbiter</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bag-on-the-side.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="bagbiting.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bagbiter"/><dt xmlns="" id="bagbiter"><b>bagbiter</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bag<61>bi:t<>@r/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work,
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or works in a remarkably clumsy manner. “<span class="quote">This text editor won't let
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me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters! What a
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bagbiter!</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A person who has caused you some trouble, inadvertently or
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otherwise, typically by failing to program the computer properly.
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Synonyms: <a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a>, <a href="../C/cretin.html"><i class="glossterm">cretin</i></a>,
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<a href="../C/chomper.html"><i class="glossterm">chomper</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">bite the bag</span> <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To fail in some manner. “<span class="quote">The computer
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keeps crashing every five minutes.</span>” “<span class="quote">Yes, the disk controller
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is really biting the bag.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>The original loading of these terms was almost undoubtedly obscene,
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possibly referring to a douche bag or the scrotum (we have reports of
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“<span class="quote">Bite the douche bag!</span>” being used as a taunt at MIT 1970-1976,
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and we have another report that “<span class="quote">Bite the bag!</span>” was in common
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use at least as early as 1965), but in their current usage they have become
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almost completely sanitized.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bag-on-the-side.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="bagbiting.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bag on the side<64></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>bagbiting</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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