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scribble
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scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core." Synonymous with trash; compare mung, which conveys a bit more intention, and mangle, which is more violent and final.
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With comical, scribbly illustrations, Gay (Good Morning Sam, rev.
Marie-Louise Gay: Caramba by Brabander, Jennifer M. / The Horn Book Magazine
Teeth suspended midpage along a liquid red line bring to mind Jay De Feo; scribbly abstractions recall Unica Zurn; and button-faces filling an entire page in rows echo Yayoi Kusama.
Lucia Nogueira: the Drawing Room at Tannery Arts by Mears, Emily Speers / Artforum International
The whole thing is handwritten and hand drawn, even the scribbly link buttons.
TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG ... THAT IS THE QUESTION FOR CELEBRITIES (AND ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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