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Irc vs Squit - What's the difference?

irc | squit |

As nouns the difference between irc and squit

is that irc is international reply coupon while squit is a person of low status.

As verbs the difference between irc and squit

is that irc is to participate in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) while squit is to disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.

As an initialism IRC

is initialism of w:Internet Relay Chat|Internet Relay Chat|lang=en It is a protocol for instant communication via the Internet.

irc

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (wikipedia IRC) (en-initialism)
  • (Internet)
  • (postal)

    • Derived terms

    * IRCer

    Noun

  • international reply coupon

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, Internet, informal) To participate in IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
  • * 1995 , Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide
    • <- irced 2 yrs without aliases ...
  • * 2002 , James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market
    • ...IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.
  • * 2004 , Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails
    • ...not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net...

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    squit

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

  • (derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
  • * 1989 , Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):
    • Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.
  • (Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.

    • Etymology 2

    Short for server quit .

    Verb

  • (internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
  • * 1994 , "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • these problems solved themselves atfter(SIC) some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring(SIC) into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.
  • * 1996 , "Jesse", A warning to all irc users'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.

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