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gweep
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/gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To hack , usually at night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards,
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one who gweeped could often be found at the College Computing Center
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punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. A correspondent
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who was there at the time opines that the term was originally onomatopoetic,
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describing the keyclick sound of the Datapoint terminals long connected to
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the PDP-10; others allege that gweep was the sound of the Datapoint's bell
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(compare feep ). The term has survived the demise of those technologies,
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however, and was still alive in early 1999. I'm going to go gweep for a
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while. See you in the morning. I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.
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2. n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. He's a hard-core
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gweep, mumbles code in his sleep. Around 1979 this was considered derogatory
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and not used in self-reference; it has since been proudly claimed in much
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the same way as geek.
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