Definitions for CONTROL C

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  1. control C

    1. “Stop whatever you are doing.” From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program. Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix hackers, the canonical humorous response to “Give me a break!”


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