bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt.
To make or become bogus. A
program that has been changed so many times as to become completely
disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard
and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified
and you had better not use it any more. This coinage led to the
notional `autobogotiphobia' defined as `the fear of becoming
bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been
`live' jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about
jargon. See also bogosity, bogus.
To make or become bogus. A
program that has been changed so many times as to become completely
disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard
and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified
and you had better not use it any more. This coinage led to the
notional `autobogotiphobia' defined as `the fear of becoming
bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been
`live' jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about
jargon. See also bogosity, bogus.
Related:
- bogotify: /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as... - bogon /boh'gon/ n.
[very common; by analogy with
proton/electron/neutron,
but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity... - bogus adj.
1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - bogus: adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym... - quantifiers
In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric
prefixes used in the SI (Système International) conventions for
scientific measurement have dual uses.
With units of time or things that come in powers... - oid suff.
[from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image
of'] 1.
Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor... - ADVENT /ad'vent/ n.
The prototypical computer
adventure game,
first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in... - creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n.
[common] 1.
Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome...
