frob🔊

(slang) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.

To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.

(slang) To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.

(Gnu C) To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3).