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tourist
the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship
(jargon)tourist - A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.

Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).

Compare twink, read-only user.


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She has lived practically on the tourist traffic attracted by her annual pageants of Parliaments, Boards, Municipal Councils, etc.
Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
"I don't call it a plunge-bath," His Sub-Excellency remarked, "unless your Active Tourist goes right under
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
All tourists MENTION the Rhine legends--in that sort of way which quietly pretends that the mentioner has been familiar with them all his life, and that the reader cannot possibly be ignorant of them--but no tourist ever TELLS them.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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