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Hair ball   /hɛr bɔl/   Listen
Hair ball

noun
1.
A compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur).  Synonyms: hairball, trichobezoar.





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... A large batch of messages that a store-and-forward network is failing to forward when it should. Often used in the phrase "Fido coughed up a hairball today", meaning that the stuck messages have just come unstuck, producing a flood of mail where there had ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


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