- backronym n.
[portmanteau of back + acronym] A word
interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended
This is a special case of what linguists call `back... - backspace and overstrike interj.
[rare] Whoa! Back up
Used to suggest that someone just said or did something... - backward combatability /bak'w*rd k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ n
[CMU, Tektronix: from `backward compatibility'] A property... - BAD /B-A-D/ adj.
[IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed']
Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and
misfeatures rather than because of bugginess
See working as designed... - Bad and Wrong adj.
[Durham, UK] Said of something that
is both badly designed and wrongly executed
This common term is the prototype of, and is used... - Bad Thing n.
[very common; from the 1930 Sellar &
Yeatman parody "1066 And All That"] Something that... - bag on the side n.
[prob. originally related to a
colostomy bag] An extension to an established hack that
is supposed to add some functionality to the original
Usually derogatory,... - bagbiter /bag'bi:t-*r/ n.
1. Something, such as a
program or a computer
that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy... - bagbiting adj.
Having the quality of a bagbiter
This bagbiting system won't let me compute the factorial... - baggy pantsing v.
[Georgia Tech] A "baggy pantsing
is used to reprimand hackers who incautiously leave...
