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Barbie
 n.— «Now, the Linux community has long enjoyed the insights of technically minded geeks, many of whom count the command line among their best friends. We would be remiss not to alert our readers, however, to a small—but rapidly growing—minority in the community known to some as “Linux Barbies.” Carla Schroder of Linux Today explains: “One of the strangest mind-benders these days is hearing Linux users going all Barbie and vowing, ’I will never touch the command line! You’ll pry my GUI from my cold dead hands!”» —“Linux Barbies Battle the Command Line” by Katherine Noyes LinuxInsider Mar. 26, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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