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Definition: A BNC is called a "bouncer", because you literally bounce your connection off it in order to connect to an IRC server. It's a small program run off of a shell account, and if your shell account provider allows it, you can use it with your favourite IRC client to use a variety of virtual hostnames (vhosts) that the provider may have availagle.