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1. (adj) awk
odd; out of order; perverse

2. (adj) awk
wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end)

3. (adj) awk
clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward

4. (adverb) awk
perversely; in the wrong way

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The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. awk
1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials). It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing. See also Perl.

2. n. Editing term for an expression awkward to manipulate through normal regexp facilities (for example, one containing a newline).

3. vt. To process data using awk(1).

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