meaning of frotz

1. frotz /frots/ 1. See frobnitz. 2. "mumble frotz": An interjection of mildest disgust. [Jargon File] frotzed /frotst/ down because of hardware problems. Compare fried. A machine that is merely frotzed may be fixable without replacing parts, but a fried machine is more seriously damaged. frowney Or "frowney face" See emoticon. [Jargon File] fry 1. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, magic smoke. 2. To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware. Never used of software or humans, but compare fried. FS 1. system> file system. 2. File Separator. FSB front side bus fsck system> file system check. The Unix program that checks a file system for internal consistency and bad blocks etc. and can repair some faults. fsck is often used after a crash when the file system has been left in an inconsistent state, e. g. due to incomplete flushing of buffers. Used on Usenet newsgroup alt. sysadmin. recovery as substitute for "fuck" and became more main-stream after the Communications Decency Act.

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