gweep

gweep

/gweep/ To hack, usually at night, or one who does so. AtWPI, from 1977 onward, gweeps could often be found at theCollege Computing Center punching cards or crashing thePDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. The term has survived thedemise of those technologies, however, and is still alive inlate 1991. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you inthe morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week."

"Gweep" originated as an onomatopeiac term, evoking the soundof the (once-ubiquitous) Hazeltine 9000 terminals' bell onWPI campus.

A gweep is one step above a fweep.