cokebottle: /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character,
particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard.
MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle'
commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the
`escape-escape-cokebottle' commands at MIT. After the demise of the
space-cadet keyboard, `cokebottle' faded away as serious usage,
but was often invoked humorously to describe an (unspecified) weird
or non-intuitive keystroke command. It may be due for a second
inning, however. The OSF/Motif window manager, `mwm(1)', has a
reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings
and behavior. This keystroke is (believe it or not)
`control-meta-bang' (see bang). Since the exclamation point looks
a lot like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif hackers have begun
referring to this keystroke as `cokebottle'. See also quadruple
bucky.
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