Can
/{kən, kan}/
vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp. when the
person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the
console". Frequently used in an imperative sense, as in "Can
that print job, the LPT just popped a sprocket!" Synonymous with
gun. It is said that the ASCII character with mnemonic CAN
(0011000) was used as a kill-job character on some early OSes.
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