| n. | 1. | One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure. |
| Noun | 1. | tourist - someone who travels for pleasure Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourer |
| (jargon) | tourist - A guest on the system, especially one who generally
logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode,
electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A
tourist is one step below a luser. Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms). Compare twink, read-only user. |