A fork of Rural Dictionary
A sprong is an agricultural hand tool. Other people may call them dung forks. It can also be used as a verb.
the farmer spronged in the silage to the feed barrier with a sprong.
A five-character sequence of C code: Left-square-bracket, zero, right-square-bracket, hyphen, greater-than. Sprongs are a specific programming trick for C and C++ that can be used to quickly access a struct when you have a handle (a pointer-to-a-pointer) to it. Instead of "(**handle).member" you can use the equivalent code "handle0->member". The somewhat unusual construct "0->" is pronounced "sprong", and brings to mind the sound of a spring. The word may have been coined by Maf Vosburgh. The use of sprongs was common among Macintosh computer programmers circa System 7 in the mid-1990s because of the large number of handles used in the Mac OS API.
Without sprongs: (** (** GetMainDevice() ).gdPMap ).pixelSize With sprongs: GetMainDevice() 0-> gdPMap 0-> pixelSize
verb: to sprong, to ejaculate noun: semen
i will sprong on your face i spronged on your face there's sprong all over my face
one: a 'sprong', Strands of hair that refuse to remain in place after combing and are prominently obvious to the point of embarrassment. two: symbol used by Macintosh C programers. 0->
One: Bad hair cut. Bad hair day.
A joke term in referring to a nonbinary child. Emerged from an image involving all sorts of made-up gender neutral terms.
"My sprong's nonbinary. Now I have a goth son and a pastel sprong."