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English Dictionary: Derf by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Derf \Derf\, a. [Icel. djafr.]
      Strong; powerful; fierce. [Obs.] -- {Derf"ly}, adv. [Obs.]

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   derf /derf/ v.,n.   [PLATO] The act of exploiting a terminal
   which someone else has absentmindedly left logged on, to use that
   person's account, especially to post articles intended to make an
   ass of the victim you're impersonating.   It has been alleged that
   the term originated as a reversal of the name of the gentleman who
   most usually left himself vulnerable to it, who also happened to be
   the head of the department that handled PLATO at the University of
   Delaware.
  
  
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