"cokebottle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cokebottles [plural]
Etymology: Coke + bottle, possibly from a nickname for the ! character, thought to resemble an upturned bottle. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Coke|bottle}} Coke + bottle Head templates: {{en-noun}} cokebottle (plural cokebottles)
  1. (computing, slang) An unusual character, or one that is difficult to type. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-cokebottle-en-noun-ZIPlbrkl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1983, Byte, Volume 8, page 312",
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          "ref": "1985, Peter S. Langston, \"The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games\", EUUGN, Vol. 5, No. 6, page 34 (reprinted in AUUGN Jul 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, page 54) https://books.google.com/books?id=5xyk_PXaloAC&pg=PA54",
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          "text": "1990-11-28, Jamie Zawinski, \"Re: Do people still use Explorers?\", comp.sys.ti.explorer,\nIf input was event-based instead of character based, then under X you could easily have seperate keybindings for left-shift-cokebottle and right-shift-cokebottle..."
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