kiboze

English

Etymology

back-formation from kibozing, itself an agglutination of Kibo + bozo + ing [1].

Verb

kiboze (third-person singular simple present kibozes, present participle kibozing, simple past and past participle kibozed)

1. (Internet) To search the Usenet news for a string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.

   The idiot apparently adds spaces to people's names to prevent kibozing. It doesn't help when you're replying to me in a newsgroup I read; I'll find that article just fine. Besides, I don't kiboze. [2]

Synonyms

• namesearch

Related terms

• Kibological
• Kibologist
• Kibology
• kibozer
• kibozo

See also

• egosurfing

References

This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.