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English
Etymology
Using the piping and redirection operators from the Unix command line.
Interjection
C|N>K
- (Internet slang) Coffee through nose to keyboard: suggesting that the user is laughing hard while reading a posted message.
- 1996 February 12, Jared Buntain, “Question for the ladies”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):
- C|N>K
Ahh, that was funny. Do you mind if I quote you there Abby?
- 2001 May 16, Dylan Smith, “Dropping objects from aircraft”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet):
- You owe me a new keyboard. Mine's now full of coffee ;-)
(Or in shell script speak: C|N>K)
- 2002 January 16, Andrew Vendryes, “Happy New Year, folks!”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):
- *spew*
DAMMIT! I know better. This is my *third* C|N>K moment here.
I suppose I should be grateful the coffee was only luke warm.
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