bogon
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See also: Bogoń
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bogus (“fake, phony”) + -on (“suffix used to form names of elementary particles or fundamental units”)
Noun[edit]
bogon (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 (on newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan)
- Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
- 1996, "John Novak", Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All (on newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan)
- (networking, slang) An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bogon.
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Venetian[edit]
Noun[edit]
bogon m (plural bogoni) or bogon m (plural boguni)