Tuesday's slang word of the day: big iron

Today's slang word of the day is big iron. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.

big iron

noun - uncountable

• mainframe or mainframes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
  
  Citation from Complete Idiot's Guide to A Career in Computer Programming, Jesse Liberty, 1999 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Dec 29 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 29 2011.  (As of March 8 2013, definitions are no longer editable.)

Enjoy!

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary

P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)