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A flag set in a TCP header to define that the packet contains URGent data.

Contrary to popular belief this is not used in QualityOfService, but is used to tell a TCP reciever that there is urgent data further along the stream so they may wish to drop all data until it's recieved (for instance). Very few protocols use this feature, Telnet being basically the only one I am aware of.