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Defenestration
  • n. [from the traditional Czechoslovakian method of assassinating prime ministers, via SF fandom] Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that was *awful*!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!"
  • The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window.
  • The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. "I don't have any disk space left. " "Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?"
  • [proposed] The requirement to support a command-line interface. "It has to run on a VT100. " "Curses! I've been defenestrated!"