Bamf

2 definitions found

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

  bamf /bamf/ 1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj. Notional
     sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's
     vicinity. Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. {MUD}) electronic {fora}
     when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. The
     sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality {fora} like
     MUDs. 3. In MUD circles, "bamf" is also used to refer to the act by


     which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to
     switch its connection to another server ("I'll set up the old site to
     just bamf people over to our new location."). 4. Used by MUDders on
     occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to
     directing someone to another location or resource ("A user was asking
     about some technobabble so I bamfed them to
     `http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/'".)
  
  

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

  bamf
       
          /bamf/ 1. [Old X-Men comics] Notional sound made by a person
          or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity.
          Often used in {virtual reality} (especially {MUD}) electronic
          {fora} when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or
          exit.
       
          2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual
          reality {fora}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]