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snarf & barf
snarf & barf /snarf'n-barf`/ /n./ Under a WIMP
environment, the act of grabbing a region of text and then
stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the
same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s,
this was a mainstream expression for an `eat now, regret it later'
cheap-restaurant expedition.
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