awk

  1. Adjective.  (obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
  2. Adjective.  (obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, ''the awk end of a rod'' (the butt end).
  3. Adjective.  (obsolete) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
  4. Adverb.  (obsolete) Perversely; in the wrong way.
  5. Proper noun.  (computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.
  6. Noun.  (computing) A Unix script written in the ''awk'' language.

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