SNARF & BARF


Meaning of SNARF & BARF in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /snarf'n-barf`/ n. ]

Under a WIMP environment , the act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a mainstream expression for an `eat now, regret it later' cheap-restaurant expedition.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.