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bogon

noun

Etymology

From bogus (“fake, phony”) + -on (“suffix used to form names of elementary particles or fundamental units”).

Definitions

  1. The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity

    The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.

    • Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.

  2. An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in…

    An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.

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Derived

bogon filter

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bogon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA