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| 3. | in tourist-class accommodations, or by tourist-class conveyance: to travel tourist. |
| tour·ist (tŏŏr'ĭst) n. One who travels for pleasure. tour·is'tic adj., tour·is'ti·cal·ly adv. |
tourist 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.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)