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(CONsole) The DOS name for the keyboard and screen. See DOS device names and DOS Copy con.

con - [SF fandom] A science-fiction convention. Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings. This term, unlike many others of SF-fan slang, is widely recognised even by hackers who aren't fans. "We'd been corresponding on the net for months, then we met face-to-face at a con."
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Webster's dictionary gives the definition of the word "bum": vagabond (now that's romantic); goldbrick (that's offensive and cruel); hobo, drifter, slug (offensive); loafer, tramp (that's not nice) and a few other colorful nouns that I am sure the American Civil Liberties Union finds demeaning.
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A man where the action is, with a ticking bomb behind his office desk and a goldbrick on it: Bruce Spector, 48, chairman of the executive committee at Stutman, Treister & Glatt, one of the nation's leading bankruptcy law firms.
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Instead, he chose to list slang and expressions such as goldbrick, snafu, and ``Kilroy was here.
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