Berzerkeley
<humour> /b*r-zer'klee/ (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, Missed'em-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]
(1996-06-01)
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