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Terms vs Squit - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and squit

is that terms is while squit is (derogatory|informal|countable) a person of low status.

As a verb squit is

(internet) to disconnect (an irc server) from a network.

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    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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