bogon
nounEtymology From bogus (“fake, phony”) + -on (“suffix used to form names of elementary particles or fundamental units”).
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Slang The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
- Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Networking, Physical sciences, Sciences Slang An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.
- Derived terms
- bogon filter