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barf
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/snarfnbarf`/ , n. Under a WIMP environment , the act of grabbing a region
of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region
(or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line. In the late 1960s, this
was a mainstream expression for an eat now, regret it later cheap-restaurant
expedition.