meaning of biff

1. BIFF /bif/ Or "B1FF", from Usenet The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie. Articles from BIFF are characterised by all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, "cute" misspellings EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HES A K00L DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!!!, use and often misuse of fragments of chat abbreviations, a long sig block sometimes even a doubled sig, and unbounded naivete. BIFF posts articles using his elder brothers VIC-20. BIFFs location is a mystery, as his articles appear to come from a variety of sites. However, BITNET seems to be the most frequent origin. The theory that BIFF is a denizen of BITNET is supported by BIFFs unfortunately invalid electronic mail address: NET>. [1993: Now It Can Be Told! My spies inform me that BIFF was originally created by Joe Talmadge hp. com>, also the author of the infamous and much-plagiarised "Flamers Bible". The BIFF filter he wrote was later passed to Richard Sexton, who posted BIFFisms much more widely. Versions have since been posted for the amusement of the net at large. - ESR] [Jargon File]
2. biff /bif/ To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD utility "biff1", which was in turn named after a friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while 4. 2BSD was in development it had a well-known habit of barking whenever the mailman came. No relation to BIFF. [Jargon File] ig Prefix of several LaTeX commands implying a larger symbol. See the command without "big". Often used to convert a dyadic operator into a function which operates on a set. E. g. sqcup, igsqcup.
3. boxing a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his ">nose"

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