A good resource, eta--thank you. I tried the hacker's jargon dictionary just to see, and found these as the first two entries:
:abbrev: /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'.

:ABEND: [ABnormal END] /ah'bend/, /*-bend'/ n. Abnormal termination (of software); {crash}; {lossage}. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by hackers but seriously mainly by {code grinder}s. Usually capitalized, but may appear as `abend'. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called `abend' because it is what system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the German `Abend' = `Evening'.

Took some doing, though: the actual dictionary--well, entries--doesn't begin until page 17.