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PEBKAC

Specialty Definition: PEBKAC

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PEBKAC /peb'kak/ [Abbrev., "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair"] Used by support people, particularly at call centers and help desks. Not used with the public. Denotes pilot error as the cause of the crash, especially stupid errors that even a luser could figure out. Very derogatory. Usage: "Did you ever figure out why that guy couldn't print?" "Yeah, he kept cancelling the operation before it could finish. PEBKAC." Compare pilot error, UBD. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PEBKAC

Specialty definitions using "PEBKAC": ID10T errorpilot error. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PEBKAC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pebkac

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PEBKAC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-k-p"

-1 letter: becap.

-2 letters: back, bake, beak, beck, cake, cape, pace, pack, peak, peck.

-3 letters: ace, ape, bap, cab, cap, cep, kab, kae, kea, kep, pac, pea, pec.

-4 letters: ab, ae, ba, be, ka, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-k-p"
 

+2 letters: packable.

 

+3 letters: backpedal, backspace, backswept, paperback, parbuckle, sweepback.

 

+4 letters: backpacked, backpacker, backpedals, backspaced, backspaces, humpbacked, paperbacks, parbuckled, parbuckles, picketboat, pocketable, sweepbacks.

 

+5 letters: backdropped, backpackers, backpedaled, backslapped, backslapper, backstopped, blacktopped, paperbacked, pickabacked, picketboats, piggybacked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PEBKAC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 42 4B 41 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000101 01000010 01001011 01000001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#66 &#75 &#65 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0042 004B 0041 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

503936453537

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3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
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