bamf: /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.tuxedo.org/jargon/'".)
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