channel
= C =
channel op
channel hopping n.
[common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly
switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board, just as a
social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel
surfing'.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.