what is 'frobbed'?

[Barry Shein]

>In looking at some unix source code, I've encountered several uses of
>the word 'frobbed'.  From the context, it appears that it means
>'manipulated in some unspecified way'.  Is this an accurate
>interpretation, or is there another meaning?  Is this even a
>unix-domain word, or just some neologism generated by a bored
>programmer?

It's short for FROBNIFICATE, c.f. The Hacker's Dictionary.
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	-Barry Shein

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