meaning of gypsy

1. One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc. , living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
2. The language used by the gypsies.
3. A dark-complexioned person.
4. A cunning or crafty person
5. Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
6. To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
7. Gypsy Specification and verification of concurrent systems software. Message passing using named mailboxes. Separately compilable units: routine procedure, function, or process, type and constant definition, each with a list of access rights. ["Report on the Language Gypsy", A. L. Ambler et al, UT Austin ICSCS-CMP-1976-08-1]. gz gzip gzip compression> GNU compression utility. Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv LZ77 compression. Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the filename extension ". gz". Compressed files can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip or zcat. The Unix "compress" utility is patented by two separate patents, in fact and is thus shunned by the GNU Project since it is not free software. They have therefore chosen gzip, which is free of any known software patents and which tends to compress better anyway. All compressed files in the GNU anonymous FTP area gnu. org/pub/gnu are in gzip format and their names end in ". gz" as opposed to "compress"-compressed files, which end in ". Z". Gzip can uncompress "compress"-compressed files and "pack" files which end in ". z". The decompression algorithms are not patented, only compression is. The gzip program is available from any GNU archive site in shar, tar, or gzipped tar format for those who already have a prior version of gzip and want faster data transmission. It works on virtually every Unix system, MS-DOS, OS/2 and VMS. h 1. A simple markup language intended for quick conversion of existing text to hypertext. 2. A method of marking common words to call attention to the fact that they are being used in a nonstandard, ironic, or humorous way. Originated in the fannish catchphrase "Bheer is the One True Ghod!" from decades ago. H-infix marking of "Ghod" and other words spread into the 1960s counterculture via underground comix, and into early hackerdom either from the counterculture or from SF fandom the three overlapped heavily at the time. More recently, the h infix has become an expected feature of benchmark names Dhrystone, Rhealstone, etc. ; this follows on from the original Whetstone the name of a laboratory but may have been influenced by the fannish/counterculture h infix. [Jargon File]
8. the Indic language of the Gypsies

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