Wango

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wango \Wang"o\, n.
     A boomerang.
     [1913 Webster]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:



  wango /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in a system
     during some unspecified operation. Often used in combination with
     {mumble}. For example: "You start with the `.o' file, run it through
     this postprocessor that does mumble-wango -- and it comes out a snazzy
     object-oriented executable."
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  wango
       
          /wang'goh/ Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in a system
          during some unspecified operation.  Often used in combination
          with {mumble}.  For example: "You start with the ".o" file,
          run it through this postprocessor that does mumble-wango - and
          it comes out a snazzy object-oriented executable."
       
          [{Jargon File}]