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Congratulations, you came up with a programming verb that’s even more disgusting than “squelch”.

Came up with? Slurp/Barf are _at least_ ~35 years old. Possibly more?

That doesn't make those terms any less disgusting to use.

Squelch is a disgusting verb? Is this one of those "I can't stand the word moist" things?