Nadger

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

  nadger /nad'jr/ v. [UK, from rude slang noun `nadgers' for testicles;
     compare American & British `bollixed'] Of software or hardware (not
     people), to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally so that it
     conforms better to some format. For instance, string printing routines
     on 8-bit processors often take the string text from the instruction
     stream, thus a print call looks like `jsr print:"Hello world"'. The


     print routine has to `nadger' the saved instruction pointer so that the
     processor doesn't try to execute the text as instructions when the
     subroutine returns. See {adger}.
  
  

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

  nadger
       
          /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] Of software or hardware (not people),
          to twiddle some object in a hidden manner, generally so that
          it conforms better to some format.  For instance, string
          printing routines on 8-bit processors often take the string
          text from the instruction stream, thus a print call looks like
       
          	jsr print:"Hello world"
       
          The print routine has to "nadger" the saved {instruction
          pointer} so that the processor doesn't try to execute the text
          as instructions when the subroutine returns.
       
          [{Jargon File}]