tourist

5 definitions found

tourist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tourist \Tour"ist\, n.
     One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for
     pleasure.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

tourist - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tourist
      n 1: someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourist, tourer,
           holidaymaker]

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

  tourist
  
     <jargon> A guest on the system, especially one who generally
     logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode,
     electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes.  A
     tourist is one step below a luser.
  
     Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of
     tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS
     culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
  
     Compare twink, read-only user.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-03-10)
  

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

  tourist
   n.
  
     1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in
     over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games,
     and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. ITS hackers often
     used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy
     with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's
     penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute to Alan
     Turing). Compare twink, lurker, read-only user.
  
     2. [IRC] An IRC user who goes from channel to channel without
  saying
     anything; see channel hopping.
  

tourist - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "tourist":
     adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camper, climber, comers and goers,
     commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare,
     globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, jet set, jet-setter,
     journeyer, mariner, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby,
     pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor,
     sightseer, slummer, straphanger, tourer, trailblazer, trailbreaker,
     transient, traveler, traveller, trekker, tripper, viator,
     visiting fireman, visitor, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur,
     wayfarer, world-traveler