go root

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

go root
 vi.

   [Unix; common] To temporarily enter {root mode} in order to perform a
   privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where v.
   `root' is a synonym for "fuck".

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

go root

   [Unix] To temporarily enter {root mode} in order to perform a
   privileged operation.  This use is deprecated in Australia,
   where the verb "root" refers to animal sex.  See {su}.

   [{Jargon File}]

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