1. Berzerkeley /b*r-zerklee/ From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missedem-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s. [Jargon File]
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