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pdl /pid'l/ or /puhd'l/ /n./ [abbreviation for `Push Down List'] 1. In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl. 2. Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of Zork; (his network address on the ITS machines was at one time pdl@dms). 3. Rarely, any sense of PDL, as these are not invariably capitalized.

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