May 15, 2003

tron

v.

[NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie Tron] To become inaccessible except via email or talk1, especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person. Frequently used in the past tense, as in: Ran seems to have tronned on us this week or Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron yourself. One may also speak of tron mode; compare spod.

Note that many dialects of BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that enables/disables line number tracing; this has no obvious relationship to the slang usage.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:25 AM

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