stark

adj 1: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the

blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark

reality of the deadline" [syn: {blunt}, {crude(a)}, {stark(a)}]

2: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: {austere}, {severe}]

3: complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"

4: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)

intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a

consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross

negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a

sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing

villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: {arrant(a)}, {complete(a)},

{consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)}, {everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)},

{perfect(a)}, {pure(a)}, {sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)},

{thoroughgoing(a)}, {utter(a)}]

5: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills";

"barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high

Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark

landscape" [syn: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate}]

adv : completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"

snark

[Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1. A system

failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get

the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!"

2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening

event on a computer (especially if it might be a boojum).

Often used to refer to an event or a log file entry that might

indicate an attempted security violation. See {snivitz}.

3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com, home site of the Hacker

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