/kohk' bot-l/ Any very unusual character, particularly one you can' t type because it isn' t on your keyboard.MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT.After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" faded away as serious usage, but was often invoked humorously to describe an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive keystroke command.It may be due for a second inning, however.The OSF/Motifwindow manager, "mwm", has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings and behaviour. This keystroke is (believe it or not) "control-meta-bang" (see bang).Since the exclamation point looks a lot like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif hackers have begun referring to this keystroke as "cokebottle".See also quadruple bucky.[Jargon File](1995-01-04)