nerd knob

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
nerd knob
 n.

   [Cisco] A command in a complex piece of software which is more likely
   to be used by an extremely experienced user to tweak a setting of one
   sort or another - a setting which the average user may not even know
   exists. Nerd knobs tend to be toggles, turning on or off a particular,
   specific, narrowly defined behavior. Special case of {knobs}.
    

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