May 15, 2003

drop-ins

n.

[prob.: by analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Esp.: used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input. Compare drop-outs, sense 2.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:50 AM

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