frob

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

  frob
  
     /frob/ 1.  [MIT] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a
     protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a "frob"
     is any random small thing; an object that you can comfortably
     hold in one hand; something you can frob (sense 2).  See
     frobnitz.
  
     2. Abbreviated form of frobnicate.
  
     3. [MUD] A command on some MUDs that changes a player's
     experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also, to
     request wizard privileges on the "professional courtesy"
     grounds that one is a wizard elsewhere.  The command is
     actually "frobnicate" but is universally abbreviated to the
     shorter form.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

frob - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  frob
   /frob/
  
     1. n. [MIT; very common] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a
     protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a frob is any
     random small thing; an object that you can comfortably hold in one
     hand; something you can frob (sense 2). See frobnitz.
  
     2. vt. Abbreviated form of frobnicate.
  
     3. [from the MUD world] A command on some MUDs that changes a
     player's experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also,
  to
     request wizard privileges on the `professional courtesy' grounds
     that one is a wizard elsewhere. The command is actually `frobnicate'
     but is universally abbreviated to the shorter form.