1. 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.catb.org/~esr/jargon/”.)
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