zap

zap  1. n. Spiciness.  2. vt. To make food spicy.  3. vt. To
   make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy.  (Most hackers
   love spicy food.  Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it
   makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.)  See
   {zapped}.  4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used
   when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching
   tool.  Also implies surgical precision.  "Zap the debug level to 6
   and run it again."  In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are
   applied to programs or to the OS with a program called
   `superzap', whose file name is `IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived
   from I M A SuPerZAP).  5. vt. To erase or reset.  6. To {fry} a
   chip with static electricity.  "Uh oh -- I think that lightning
   strike may have zapped the disk controller."