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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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Touristically corny as Helen's reverie is, with its footage of camels and pyramids, it provides a sharp ironic parallel between Egypt and Margate itself, a shabbily exotic escape for generations of working-class British holidaymakers.
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But the Secession is frequented more by visitors who are interested in the building itself; usually the exhibitions of contemporary art are consumed almost touristically.
Guillaume Bijl by Kravagna, Christian / Artforum International
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