rark off
v. phr.— «Ive been havin this problem for a while now, and its starting to rark me off now. Everytime i put a full page border in a word document the bottom line never prints.» —“Freakin Page Borders” by Greg in New Zealand Usenet: microsoft.public.word.pagelayout Aug. 5, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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