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zap

1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone suffer by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See ped. 4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again. In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called super , whose file name is IMASPZAP (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To erase or reset. 6. To fry a chip with static electricity. Uh oh I think that lightning strike may have ped the disk controller.
	`zap`

	1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make someone suffer by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See ped. 4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again. In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called super , whose file name is IMASPZAP (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To erase or reset. 6. To fry a chip with static electricity. Uh oh I think that lightning strike may have ped the disk controller.