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bugaboos: inordinate fear of mountain insects. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982
Bug: An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect.
bug-compatible: adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.
) previous relea...
bug-for-bug compatible: n. Same as {bug-compatible}, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
-- The AI Hackers Dictio...
Bug free, cheap, on time, works. Pick two.
Bug free, cheap, or on time. Pick two.
BUG [from telephone terminology, "bugs in a telephone cable", blamed for noisy lines.
] n. An unwanted and unintended (and undesirable) property of a program. See FEATURE....
BUGGER Common suffix to the word "oh". May also have some sexual connotations, but we're not getting into all that again.
-- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA...
Bugger me with a fish fork.
Bugger off.

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