Some G.U.E. Tech Jargon

frob.

(noun) A thing. Useful when you have two "unspecified objects" on hand. "Stick that frob on the thing over there."

tool.

(noun) A nerd. Someone who studies all the time, never taking time for a social life. (verb) To study. "I'm tooling tonight."

hack.

(noun) A prank. "Painting the Dean's house pink was a great hack!" (verb) To commit a prank. "We hacked the Dean's house."

-p.

(suffix) Adding the -p suffix to a word makes it a question. A derivative of the LISP computer language, where "p" indicates a predicate (e.g., "greaterp x y," meaning "is x greater than y?"). Most commonly heard among tools majoring in Computer Science. "Foodp?" (pronounced "food-pee") means "Are you hungry?"

grease.

(noun) Student politician. (verb) To pass a course without working on it. "I greased Thermodynamics."

rug rat (or rat).

Freshman. Presumably derives from the use of this term as a synonym for child.

urchin.

(noun) A local child or teenager who hangs around campus and often causes objects of value to mysteriously disappear.

curdle.

(verb) To astonish, usually with a connotation of the surprise being unpleasant. "I was really curdled when I saw my final grades."