dictionary definitions for "nana"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nana \Na"na\, n. [prob. from babytalk.]
     Grandmother.
     [PJC]

From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:

  NANA
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     [Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.*, devoted to fighting
     spam and network abuse. Each individual newsgroup is often referred
     to by adding a letter to NANA. For example, NANAU would refer to
     news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.
  
     When spam began to be a serious problem around 1995, and a loose
     network of anti-spammers formed to combat it, spammers immediately
     accused them of being the backbone cabal, or the Cabal reborn.
     Though this was not true, spam-fighters ironically accepted the label
     and the tag line "There is No Cabal" reappeared (later, and now
     commonly, abbreviated to "TINC"). Nowadays "the Cabal" is generally
     understood to refer to the NANA regulars.
  


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