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English

Etymology

Using the piping and redirection operators from the Unix command line.

Interjection

C|N>K

1. (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^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (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.

See also

• snark
• splork