Gweep

2 definitions found

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

  gweep /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night. At WPI, from
     1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often be found at the College
     Computing Center punching cards or crashing the {PDP-10} or, later, the
     DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines that the term
     was originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick sound of the
     Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10; others allege that


     `gweep' was the sound of the Datapoint's bell (compare {feep}). The term
     has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and was still
     alive in early 1999. "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." 2. n. One who
     habitually gweeps in sense 1; a {hacker}. "He's a hard-core gweep,
     mumbles code in his sleep." Derogatory in connotation, and not used in
     self-reference.
  
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  gweep
       
          /gweep/ To {hack}, usually at night, or one who does so.  At
          {WPI}, from 1977 onward, gweeps could 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 1991.  "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."
       
          "Gweep" originated as an onomatopeiac term, evoking the sound
          of the (once-ubiquitous) {Hazeltine 9000} terminals' bell on
          WPI campus.
       
          A gweep is one step above a {fweep}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-01-31)