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This is the JargonFile (V4.47) entry for -fu - Next: FUBAR, Prev: [[Also, note that all nouns can be verbed. E.g.: "All nouns can be verbed", 
  "I'll mouse it up", "Hang on while I clipboard it over", "I'm grepping
  the files". English as a whole is already heading in this direction
  (towards pure-positional grammar like Chinese); hackers are simply a bit
ahead of the curve.]]
:-fu: [common; generalized from kung-fu] Combining form denoting expert practice of a skill. "Thats going to take some serious code-fu." First sighted in connection with the GIMPs remote-scripting facility, script-fu, in 1998.
* (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using JargonFile VERSION 4.4.7, 29 DEC 2003 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain)


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