cokebottle
 

* 1.cokebottle/kohk'bot-l/ any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it it isn't on your keyboard. mit people used to complain about the control-meta-cokebottle commands at sail, and sail people complained about the altmode-altmode-cokebottle commands at mit. after the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, cokebottle faded away as serious usage, but was often invoked humorously to describe an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive keystroke command. it may be due for a second inning, however. the osf/motif window manager, mwm , has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings and behaviour. this keystroke is (believe it or not) control-meta-bang (see: bang). since the exclamation point looks a lot like an upside down coke bottle, motif hackers have begun referring to this keystroke as cokebottle.see also: quadruple bucky