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| hairy 1. Annoyingly complicated. " is incredibly hairy." 2. Incomprehensible. " is incredibly hairy." 3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context: "He knows this hairy lawyer who says there's nothing to worry about." See also . A well-known result in called the Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem states that any continuous transformation of a surface into itself has at least one . Mathematically literate hackers tend to associate the term "hairy" with the informal version of this theorem; "You can't comb a hairy ball smooth." The adjective "long-haired" is well-attested to have been in slang use among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was equivalent to modern "hairy" and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun "long-hair" was at the time used to describe a hairy person. Both senses probably passed out of use when long hair was adopted as a signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving hackish "hairy" as a sort of stunted mutant relic. [] (1995-04-16) |
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