/sner' b*l/ Incorrect data introduced by transmission errors any corrupted or uninterpretable data. The word oriGInated in a 1978 advertisement for a Mockingboard, which "makes frogs croak, princesses shriek, and martians zxnrbl." "It' s not misspelled on the oriGInal page. The Internet must have zxnrbled it on the way to you." (1997-03-16)