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Gweep
  • [WPI] v. To hack, usually at night. At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and is still alive in late 199"I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning. " "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week. "
  • n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. "He's a hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep. "