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BAGBITER

Specialty Definition: BAGBITER

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Computing

Bagbiter /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner. "This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters! What a bagbiter!" 2. A person who has caused you some trouble, inadvertently or otherwise, typically by failing to program the computer properly. Synonyms: loser, cretin, chomper. 3. `bite the bag' vi. To fail in some manner. "The computer keeps crashing every five minutes." "Yes, the disk controller is really biting the bag." The original loading of these terms was almost undoubtedly obscene, possibly referring to a douche bag or the scrotum (we have reports of "Bite the douche bag!" being used as a taunt at MIT 1970-1976, and we have another report that "Bite the bag!" was in common use at least as early as 1965), but in their current usage they have become almost completely sanitized. ITS's lexiphage program was the first and to date only known example of a program _intended_ to be a bagbiter. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: BAGBITER

Specialty definitions using "BAGBITER": bagbitinglexiphage. (references)

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Anagrams: BAGBITER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-g-i-r-t"

-1 letter: gabbier.

-2 letters: aigret, baiter, barbet, barite, begirt, gabber, gaiter, gibber, gibbet, rabbet, rabbit, rebait, terbia, triage.

-3 letters: barbe, barge, begat, biter, bribe, giber, grate, great, irate, rabbi, retag, retia, taber, targe, terai, terga, tiger, tragi, tribe.

-4 letters: abbe, abet, abri, ager, airt, babe, bait, barb, bare, bate, bear, beat, berg, beta, bier, bite, brae.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-g-i-r-t"
 

+1 letter: grabbiest, rabbeting.

 

+3 letters: bearbaiting, browbeating.

 

+4 letters: abbreviating, bearbaitings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BAGBITER


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

42 41 47 42 49 54 45 52

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)

-...    .-    --.    -...    ..    -    .    .-.

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

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

01000010 01000001 01000111 01000010 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#71 &#66 &#73 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0047 0042 0049 0054 0045 0052

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

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

3635413643543952

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