swab /swob/
[From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte'
instruction, as immortalized in the dd(1)
option
conv=swab
(see dd)] 1. vt. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 Unix
used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to
it. See also big-endian, little-endian,
middle-endian, bytesexual.