frob (English, verb)
expansion: frob (third-person singular simple present frobs, present participle frobbing, simple past and past participle frobbed)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
tags: rare
slang
transitive
qualifier: Silicon Valley
glosses: To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.
tags: slang
topics: Linux
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3).
Forms:
form: frobs
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frobbing
tags: participle
present
form: frobbed
tags: participle
past
form: frobbed
tags: past