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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>zorch</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="../Z.html" title="Z"/><link rel="previous" href="zombie.html" title="zombie"/><link rel="next" href="Zork.html" title="Zork"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">zorch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="zombie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Z</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Zork.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="zorch"/><dt xmlns="" id="zorch"><b>zorch</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/zorch/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [TMRC] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To attack with an
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inverse heat sink. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [TMRC] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To travel, with
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<tt class="literal">v</tt> approaching
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<tt class="literal">c</tt> [that is, with velocity approaching
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lightspeed —ESR]. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [MIT] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To propel something
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very quickly. “<span class="quote">The new comm software is very fast; it really zorches
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files through the network.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [MIT] <span class="grammar">n.</span> Influence. Brownie
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points. Good karma. The intangible and fuzzy currency in which favors are
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measured. “<span class="quote">I'd rather not ask him for that just yet; I think I've
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used up my quota of zorch with him for the week.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 5. [MIT] <span class="grammar">n.</span> Energy, drive, or
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ability. “<span class="quote">I think I'll <a href="../P/punt.html"><i class="glossterm">punt</i></a> that change for
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now; I've been up for 30 hours and I've run out of zorch.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 6. [MIT] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To flunk an exam or
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course.</p></dd><dd><p>A track called <i class="citetitle">Zorch</i> was the B-side of a
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single called <i class="citetitle">Captain Hideous</i>, released by novelty
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artist Nervous Norvous in 1955. Norvous was heavily influemced by a radio
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comedian named Red Blanchard; the word “<span class="quote">zorch</span>” appears to have
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been coined on Blanchard's show in the early 1950s. The word itself had no
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meaning, but there where compounds using it that did — “<span class="quote">zorch
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cow</span>”, for example, was a variant of the Chicago-area slang
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“<span class="quote">black cow</span>” for a root beer float.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="zombie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Z.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Zork.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">zombie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Zork</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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