zap

   1. n. Spiciness.

   2. vt. To make food spicy.

   3.  vt.  To  make  someone  `suffer'  by making his food spicy. (Most
   hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless
   it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See {zapped}.

   4.  vt.  To  modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action is
   performed  with  a  debugger  or  binary  patching tool. Also implies
   surgical  precision.  "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again." In
   the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to
   the  OS  with  a  program  called  `superzap',  whose  file  name  is
   `IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).

   5. vt. To erase or reset.

   6.  To  {fry}  a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh -- I think that
   lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {laser chicken}{patch space}{zapped}]