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slopsuckerslopsucker /slop´suhk·r/ n. A lowest-priority task that waits around until everything else has ‘had its fill’ of machine resources. Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the task allowed to `‘suck up the slop’. Also called a hungry puppy or bottom feeder. One common variety of slopsucker hunts for large prime numbers. Compare background. |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |
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