drug

n : something that is used as a medicine or narcotic

v 1: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"

[syn: {dose}]

2: use recreational drugs [syn: {do drugs}]

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)