May 15, 2003

tee

n.,vt.

[Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. Oh, you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me. From the Unix command tee1, itself named after a pipe fitting (see plumbing). Can also mean ‘save one for me’, as in Tee a slice for me! Also spelled ‘T’.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:27 AM

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