cokebottle

noun

cokebottle

noun

Etymology From Coke + bottle, possibly from a nickname for the ! character, thought to resemble an upturned bottle.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Slang An unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.

  • MINCE has a million commands; Control-meta-CokeBottle probably means something.1983, Byte, Volume 8, page 312
  • ...the task at hand with few, if any, religious debates over the virtues of modelessness or the sins of meta-cokebottle-shift.1985, Peter S. Langston, "The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games", EUUGN, Vol. 5, No. 6, page 34 (reprinted in AUUGN Jul 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, page 54) https://books.google.com/books?id=5xyk_PXaloAC&pg=PA54
3 more examples
  • 1990-11-28, Jamie Zawinski, "Re: Do people still use Explorers?", comp.sys.ti.explorer, If input was event-based instead of character based, then under X you could easily have seperate keybindings for left-shift-cokebottle and right-shift-cokebottle...
  • Nowadays many younger hackers can touch-type, so space-cadet-style quadruple-bucky-meta-cokebottle commands are less popular than formerly; […]1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, O'Reilly Media,, →ISBN, page 408:
  • Now type x-underscore-asterisk-coke bottle!2015, Alex Feinman, We Were Gods (Omnibus Edition), →ISBN, page 235:

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