TRON


Meaning of TRON in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ v. ]

[NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie "Tron"] To become inaccessible except via email or talk(1) , especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person. Frequently used in the past tense, as in: "Ran seems to have tronned on us this week" or "Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron yourself". One may also speak of `tron mode'; compare spod .

Note that many dialects of BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that enables/disables line number tracing; this has no obvious relationship to the slang usage.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.