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/frob/ 1. [MIT] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a
protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a "frob"
is any random small thing; an object that you can comfortably
hold in one hand; something you can frob (sense 2). See
frobnitz.


2. Abbreviated form of frobnicate.


3. [MUD] A command on some MUDs that changes a player's
experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also, to
request wizard privileges on the "professional courtesy"
grounds that one is a wizard elsewhere. The command is
actually "frobnicate" but is universally abbreviated to the
shorter form.

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frob
/frob/


1. n. [MIT; very common] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a
protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a frob is any
random small thing; an object that you can comfortably hold in one
hand; something you can frob (sense 2). See frobnitz.


2. vt. Abbreviated form of frobnicate.


3. [from the MUD world] A command on some MUDs that changes a
player's experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also,
to request wizard privileges on the `professional courtesy' grounds
that one is a wizard elsewhere. The command is actually `frobnicate'
but is universally abbreviated to the shorter form.


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