loop through

loop through

To process each element of a list of things. "Hold on, I'vegot to loop through my paper mail." Derives from thecomputer-language notion of an iterative loop; compare "cdrdown" (under cdr), which is less common among C and Unixprogrammers. ITS hackers used to say "IRP over" after anobscure pseudo-op in the MIDAS PDP-10 assembler.