swab
/swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte'
instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab'
(see dd)] 1. vt. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping
bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 UNIX used to perform this
action, or anything functionally equivalent to it. See also
big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian,
bytesexual.
