chore

n : a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or

for a specific fee: "estimates of the city's loss on that

job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of

repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless

task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning

chores" [syn: {job}, {task}]

choke

1. To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System V's

"lpr(1)" choke." "I tried building an {Emacs} binary to use

{X}, but "cpp(1)" choked on all those "#define"s." See

{barf}, {gag}.

2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with

some flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch

defeat from the jaws of victory."

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