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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bamf</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="balloonian-variable.html" title="balloonian variable"/><link rel="next" href="banana-problem.html" title="banana problem"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bamf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="balloonian-variable.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="banana-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bamf"/><dt xmlns="" id="bamf"><b>bamf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bamf/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [from X-Men comics; originally “<span class="quote">bampf</span>”] <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Notional sound made by a person or object
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teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in
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<a href="../V/virtual-reality.html"><i class="glossterm">virtual reality</i></a> (esp. <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>)
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electronic <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a> when a character wishes to make a
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dramatic entrance or exit. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality
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<a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a> like MUDs. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. In MUD circles, “<span class="quote">bamf</span>” is also used to refer to the
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act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to
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switch its connection to another server (“<span class="quote">I'll set up the old site to
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just bamf people over to our new location.</span>”). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to
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sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource
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(“<span class="quote">A user was asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/</a></span>”.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="balloonian-variable.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="banana-problem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">balloonian variable </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> banana problem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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