drub

v : beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the

other team on Sunday!" [syn: {bat}, {clobber}, {thrash},

{lick}]

drum

Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once

state-of-the-art storage devices. Under {BSD} {Unix} the disk

partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this

has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced

but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on {newbie}s.

See also "{The Story of Mel}".

(1994-12-22)