Nerd knob

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nerd knob
Usage: n.
Derivation: Cisco


nerd knob: n.

[Cisco] A command in a complex piece of software which is more likely to be used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of one sort or another - a setting which the average user may not even know exists. Nerd knobs tend to be toggles, turning on or off a particular, specific, narrowly defined behavior. Special case of knobs.

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Source: nerd knob, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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