Biff




/bif/ To notify someone of incoming mail.

From the BSD utility "biff(1)", which was in turn named after a friendly golden Labrador who used to chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while 4.2BSD was in development (it had a well-known habit of barking whenever the mailman came).

No relation to BIFF.

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bidirectional printing
Bidouilleurs Sans Argent
bi-endian
BIFF
 B1FF
BIFF
biff
BITNET
chat
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Big bag of pages
big blue
big-endian
Big Gray Wall