nerd knob

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nerd knob - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  nerd knob
   n.
  
     [Cisco] A command in a complex piece of software which is more likely
     to be used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of one
     sort or another - a setting which the average user may not even know
     exists. Nerd knobs tend to be toggles, turning on or off a
  particular,
     specific, narrowly defined behavior. Special case of knobs.