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:frob: /frob/ 1. /n./  [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was
   "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a
   `frob' is any random small thing; an object that you can
   comfortably hold in one hand; something you can frob (sense 2).
   See {frobnitz}.  2. /vt./ Abbreviated form of {frobnicate}.
   3. [from the {MUD} world] A command on some MUDs that changes a
   player's experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also,
   to request {wizard} privileges on the `professional courtesy'
   grounds that one is a wizard elsewhere.  The command is actually
   `frobnicate' but is universally abbreviated to the shorter form.