borf

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borf - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  borf
  
     <jargon> To uncerimoniously disconnect someone from a system
     without prior warning.  BBS Sysops routinely "borf" pest
     users by turning off the modem or by hitting the "auto-borf"
     key sequence.
  
     You can also be "borfed" by software dropping carrier due to
     a bug.
  
     The origin of the term is unknown but it has been in use since
     at least 1982.
  
     (1997-03-21)