swab

Suzie COBOL | = S = | swap

swab /swob/

[From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)` option `conv=swab` (see dd)] 1. vt. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it. See also big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, bytesexual.

Suzie COBOL | = S = | swap