bogon
English
editEtymology
editFrom bogus (“fake, phony”) + -on (“suffix used to form names of elementary particles or fundamental units”).
Noun
editbogon (plural bogons)
- (computing, slang) The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
- 1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):
- Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
- (networking, slang) An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.
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edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bogon.
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editbogon
Venetian
editNoun
editbogon m (plural bogoni) or bogon m (plural boguni)