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Tourist : (noun)
1: someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourer, holidaymaker]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Tourist : \Tour"ist\, n.
One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tourist :
A guest on the system, especially one who generally
logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode,
electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A
tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of
tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS
culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
[{Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Tourist : n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally
logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email,
games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. ITS hackers
often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous
analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS
culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute
to Alan Turing). Compare twink, lurker, read-only user. 2. [IRC]
An IRC user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything;
see channel hopping.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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