tourist

tourist (ˈtʊərɪst)
—n
1.	a.  a person who travels for pleasure, usually sightseeing and staying in hotels
	b.  (as modifier): tourist attractions
2.	a person on an excursion or sightseeing tour
3.	a person travelling abroad as a member of a sports team that is playing a series of usually international matches
4.	Also called: tourist class the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship
—adj
5.	of or relating to tourist accommodation
tour'istic
—adj

tourist

tourist

n.
1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare twink, lurker, read-only user.
2. [IRC] An IRC user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything; see channel hopping.

tourist definition

jargon
A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)