Definitions
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- noun jargon Any small
device orobject (usuallyhand -sized ) which can bemanipulated . - verb jargon To
manipulate objects considered to be frobs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“The specified frob does not exist or has already been used.”
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I spent most of today trying to understand, again, what a token is and a frob and how they relate.
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When I call flickr. auth.getToken with a frob returned by flickr. auth.getFrob, I get error code 108: Invalid frob.
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Frobnicate (Often abbreviated to frob): To manipulate, adjust or tweak something, as in "Please frob the light switch."
Live Wires 2008
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You first need to frob the blurble and then blah blah blah blah.
Site Home Raymond Chen - MSFT 2011
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I'm hitting a problem with SHFileOperation when using it to frob files in the gonzo directory when the user's SID ends in an odd number.
The Old New Thing oldnewthing 2010
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Or if you have some common cases you can mention them in patterns: foo 5 = frob 5 foo x = frob x
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The sunrays were "bear" in various languages (oso, medved, ursa), and later they had words from the hacker's dictionary (foo, bar, baz, frob)
Slashdot 2009
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Of course, as these things go, I fully expect that someone will tell me "install the Blahonga module and you get it" or "buh, all you need to to is to frob around in the config and it's there!" and that would be fine, too.
Planet Lisp 2009
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But when I try to upload using kflicker it fails to authenicate with an "invalid frob" error.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
oroboros commented on the word frob
To manipulate knobs and controls on an electronic object to see what they do (according to NPR's Says You).
October 25, 2014