[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

bamf /bamf/ 1. from x-men comics; originally "bampf" interj. notional
   sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's
   vicinity. often used in virtual reality esp. mud electronic fora
   when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. the
   sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality fora like
   muds. 3. in mud circles, "bamf" is also used to refer to the act by
   which a mud server sends a special notification to the mud client to
   switch its connection to another server "i'll set up the old site to
   just bamf people over to our new location.". 4. used by mudders on
   occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to
   directing someone to another location or resource "a user was asking
   about some technobabble so i bamfed them to
   `http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/'".


see also:
virtual reality mud fora 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

bamf
     
        /bamf/ 1. old x-men comics notional sound made by a person
        or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity.
        often used in virtual reality especially mud electronic
        fora when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or
        exit.
     
        2. the sound of magical transformation, used in virtual
        reality fora.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
virtual reality mud fora jargon file 

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