Unsupported titles/C`vert`N`gt`K

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English

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Etymology

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Using the piping and redirection operators from the Unix command line.

Interjection

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C|N>K

  1. (Internet slang) Coffee through nose to keyboard: suggesting that the user is laughing hard while reading a posted message.
    • 1996 February 12, Jared Buntain, “Question for the ladies”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery[1] (Usenet):
      C|N>K
      Ahh, that was funny. Do you mind if I quote you there Abby?
    • 2001 May 16, Dylan Smith, “Dropping objects from aircraft”, in rec.aviation.student[2] (Usenet):
      You owe me a new keyboard. Mine's now full of coffee ;-)
      (Or in shell script speak: C|N>K)
    • 2002 January 16, Andrew Vendryes, “Happy New Year, folks!”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery[3] (Usenet):
      *spew*
      DAMMIT! I know better. This is my *third* C|N>K moment here.
      I suppose I should be grateful the coffee was only luke warm.

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