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• monstrosity 1. n. A ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form.
  An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain)....
• baroque: adj. Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.
  Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself....
• hose: 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and ignorance) and exceedingly hairy monstrosity.
  See also second-system effect and baroque....
• PM: /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes.
  See {provocative maintenance}; see also {scratch monkey}....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
  gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....
• phage: n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorized way
  esp. one that propagates a {virus} or {Trojan horse}....