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English Dictionary: Tourist by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tourist
n
  1. someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourist, tourer, holidaymaker]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tourist \Tour"ist\, n.
      One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   tourist n.   1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who
   generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm
   mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.   One step below
   {luser}.   ITS hackers often used to spell this {turist}, perhaps by
   some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this usage may also have
   expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been
   some sort of tribute to Alan Turing).   Compare {twink}, {lurker},
   {read-only user}.   2. [IRC] An {IRC} user who goes from channel to
   channel without saying anything; see {channel hopping}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   tourist
  
      A guest on the system, especially one who generally
      logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode},
      {electronic mail}, {games} and other trivial purposes.   A
      tourist is one step below a {luser}.
  
      Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of
      tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the {ITS}
      culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
  
      Compare {twink}, {read-only user}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-03-10)
  
  
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