snarf & barf
snarf & barf
/snarf'n-barf`/ Under a
WIMP environment, the act of
grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of
that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid
retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this was a
mainstream expression for an "eat now, regret it later" cheap
restaurant expedition.
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