wumpus
Noun
Meaning
wumpus (plural wumpi)
A fictional reclusive monster.
Examples
As Greg "wumpus" Lindahl explains: "it had a wildcard server line, so people were hooking up servers and nick-colliding everyone".
Development 4.3 BSD man page for Hunt the Wumpus ("wump") Hunt the Wumpus was originally written by Gregory Yob in BASIC while attending the Dartmouth campus of the University of Massachusetts in 1972 or 1973.
Legacy *The card game Magic: The Gathering has featured several "Wumpus" cards.
However, firing the arrow into the wrong chamber startles the Wumpus, which may cause it to move to an adjacent room.
In this version, the Wumpus is depicted as a large red head with a pair of legs growing out of its sides.
The original text-based version of Hunt the Wumpus uses a command line text interface.