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thunker

noun

Etymology

From thunk + -er.

Definitions

  1. A software mechanism that thunks.

    • And 32-bit Windows applications require the bundled MetaWare Applications Development Kit (ADK), a 32-to-16 bit Windows thunker similar to but predating the Microsoft Win32s system.
    • There were no 32-bit scanner drivers or TWAIN modules, none were forthcoming from Microsoft […] Then along came the TWAIN_32 standard of the universal thunker.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thunker. 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