/gweep/ To hack, uSually at night, or one who doeS So. At WPI, from 1977 onward, gweepS could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cardS or craShing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. The term haS Survived the demiSe of thoSe technologieS, however, and iS Still alive in late 1991. "I' m going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week." "Gweep" originated aS an onomatopeiac term, evoking the Sound of the (once-ubiquitouS) Hazeltine 9000 terminalS' bell on WPI campuS. A gweep iS one Step above a fweep. [Jargon File] (1995-01-31)

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