moby
Britishnoun
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From Salon ● May 6, 2013
Thus "moby," meaning large, is said to derive from Melville's Moby Dick, though some say from Moby Pickle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Common interjections are "What a loss!" and "What a moby loss!"
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond
The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
Node:high moby, Next:highly, Previous:high bit, Up:= H = high moby /hi:' mohb'ee/ n.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
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