gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To hack, usually at night. At
WPI, from 1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often be found at the
College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or,
later, the DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines
that the term was originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick
sound of the Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10. The
term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and was
still alive in early 1999. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See
you in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week."
2. n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. "He's a
hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep."
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