Biff: a definition
July 15th, 2004
One of the BEST dictionary.com entries ever:
I’m especially enamored of the lower, nerdy entries:
/bif/ vt. To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD utility `biff(1)’, which was in turn named after a friendly dog who used to chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while 4.2BSD was in development. There was a legend that it had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of `biff’ says this is not true. No relation to B1FF.
We used to say “BIFF!” in elementary school whenever we hit each other’s head. This was around the time of Back to the Future. Did anyone else do that?
