humour /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a
now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley"
used especially to refer to the practices or products of the
Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been
reported from as far back as the 1960s.
(1996-06-01)