Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. jargon Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.
- v. jargon To manipulate objects considered to be frobs.
Etymologies
- It was adopted by the community of computer programmers which grew out of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1950s, and allegedly among the oldest existing words in hacker jargon. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When I call flickr. auth.getToken with a frob returned by flickr. auth.getFrob, I get error code 108: Invalid frob.”
““The specified frob does not exist or has already been used.””
“I spent most of today trying to understand, again, what a token is and a frob and how they relate.”
“Frobnicate (Often abbreviated to frob): To manipulate, adjust or tweak something, as in "Please frob the light switch.”
“You first need to frob the blurble and then blah blah blah blah.”
“I'm hitting a problem with SHFileOperation when using it to frob files in the gonzo directory when the user's SID ends in an odd number.”
“Or if you have some common cases you can mention them in patterns: foo 5 = frob 5 foo x = frob x”
“The sunrays were "bear" in various languages (oso, medved, ursa), and later they had words from the hacker's dictionary (foo, bar, baz, frob)”
“Of course, as these things go, I fully expect that someone will tell me "install the Blahonga module and you get it" or "buh, all you need to to is to frob around in the config and it's there!" and that would be fine, too.”
“But when I try to upload using kflicker it fails to authenicate with an "invalid frob" error.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frob’.
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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whim!
unalloyed, abate, dated, chiffon, sturgeon, nahuatl, elephant, wolverine, chaos, pandemonium, rice paddy, crop circle and 34 more...
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johnwarren's Words
callipygian, solipsism, supremacy, inscrutable, privateer, cellar, starship, tenebrous, ullage, gnomon, selah, meretricious and 29 more...
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