1. glitch
[very common; from German ‘glitschig’ slippery, via
Yiddish ‘glitshen’, to slide or skid] 1. n. A sudden interruption in
electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function. Sometimes
recoverable. An interruption in electric service is specifically called a
power glitch (also
power hit), of grave concern because it usually crashes all the
computers. In jargon, though, a hacker who got to the middle of a sentence
and then forgot how he or she intended to complete it might say,
“Sorry, I just glitched”. 2. vi. To commit a glitch. See
gritch. 3. vt. [Stanford] To scroll a
display screen, esp. several lines at a time.
WAITS terminals used to do this in order to avoid
continuous scrolling, which is distracting to the eye. 4. obs. Same as magic cookie, sense
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