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- chock-full (adj.)




- c. 1400, chokkeful "crammed full," possibly from choke "cheek" (see cheek (n.)). Or it may be from Old French choquier "collide, crash, hit" (13c., Modern French choquer), which is probably from Germanic (compare Middle Dutch schokken; see shock (n.1)).
- cram (v.)




- Old English crammian "press something into something else," from Proto-Germanic *kram-/*krem- (cognates: Old High German krimman "to press, pinch," Old Norse kremja "to squeeze, pinch"), from PIE root *ger- "to gather" (see gregarious). Meaning "study intensely for an exam" originally was British student slang first recorded 1803. Related: Crammed; cramming.
- deprogram (v.)




- "release from cult brainwashing," 1973, from de- + program (v.). Related: Deprogrammed; deprogramming.
- monogram (v.)




- 1868, from monogram (n.). Related: Monogrammed; monogramming.
- preprogram (v.)




- also pre-program, 1955, from pre- + program (v.). Related: Preprogrammed; preprogramming.
- program (v.)




- 1889, "write program notes;" 1896, "arrange according to program," from program (n.). Of computers from 1945. From 1963 in the figurative sense of "to train to behave in a predetermined way." Related: Programmed; programming.
- ram (v.)




- "to beat with a heavy implement," c. 1300, from ram (n.). Related: Rammed; ramming.
- reprogram (v.)




- also reprogramme, 1945, from re- "back, again" + program (v.). Related: Reprogrammed; reprogramming.
- scram (v.)




- 1928, U.S. slang, either a shortened form of scramble (v.) or from German schramm, imperative singular of schrammen "depart." Related: Scrammed; scramming.
- EPROM




- "A read-only memory whose contents can be erased by ultraviolet light or other means and reprogrammed using a pulsed voltage", 1970s: acronym from erasable programmable ROM.