(verb) an extremely obscure term meaning to make consistent progress at a steady and sustainable rate; refers to the arcade game that was extremely popular in the 1980s, in which the titular Pac-Man moved at a consistent speed that could not be changed by the player, steadily consuming dots; for example: “I’ve got a whole quarter’s worth of reports to compile so I’m just going to Pac-Man through them all evening”; not to be confused with the Pac-Man defense, in which the target of a hostile takeover turns around and attempts to swallow up its antagonist, as when the roles of Pac-Man and the pursuing ghosts are temporarily reversed through the former’s consumption of a power pellet