The New Hacker's Dictionary

stoppage /sto'p*j/ n.

Extreme lossage that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a fried transformer."

store // n.

[prob. from techspeak 'main store'] In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for core. Thus, 'bringing a program into store' means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being swapped in.

strided /stri:'d*d/ adj.

[scientific computing] Said of a sequence of memory reads and writes to addresses, each of which is separated from the last by a constant interval called the 'stride length'. These can be a worst-case access pattern for the standard memory-caching schemes when the stride length is a multiple of the cache line size. Strided references are often generated by loops through an array, and (if your data is large enough that access-time is significant) it can be worthwhile to tune for better locality by inverting double loops or by partially unrolling the outer loop of a loop nest. This usage is borderline techspeak; the related term 'memory stride' is definitely techspeak.

stroke // n.

Common name for the slant ('/', ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.

strudel // n.

Common (spoken) name for the at-sign ('@', ASCII 1000000) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.

stubroutine /stuhb'roo-teen/ n.

[contraction of 'stub subroutine'] Tiny, often vacuous placeholder for a subroutine that is to be written or fleshed out later.

studly // adj.

Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair. Has connotations similar to hairy but is more positive in tone. Often in the emphatic 'most studly' or as noun-form 'studliness'. "Smail 3.0's configuration parser is most studly."