1. A huge volume of spurious errOR-messages output by a compiler with poORerrOR recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax errOR (such as a missing ")" OR "}") throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text, whether cORrect OR not, is interpreted as garbaged OR ill-fORmed. 2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation OR riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message an {include war} in which the object is to create a sORt of communal graffito. 3. ORking> A collection of interconneced netwORking devices, typically hubs, that allows those devices to act together as a logicalrepeater. [Jargon File] (1997-07-17)