Browsing page 16 of "P" words

noun

• French food

  Last edited on Jan 11 2025. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 11 2025.

noun

• a company or individual who files patent infringement lawsuits based on their patents. Patent trolls don't produce products using their patents - rather, the patents are used only to generate a lawsuit-based profit stream.

  Last edited on Jul 28 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 11 2010.

verb

• To eat all the food given to oneself in order to satisfy one's father

  Last edited on Sep 07 2024. Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 07 2024.

adjective

• of input used to test a program or an algorithm, specifically designed to make the test subject perform as poorly as possible.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• of a set of circumstances that are likely to adversely affect something, very unlikely to occur.

  Person A: If the user uninstalls and then reinstalls video drivers while their monitor is off, the system will fail to boot.
  
  Person B: Yes, but that's a pathological case.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• of a data set, very dissimilar from normal input. Especially one that exposes a bug or algorithmic limitation.
  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

adjective

• suffering properly

  Last edited on Jul 17 2024. Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 17 2024.

noun

• a person who believes in patience as the highest moral virtue

  Last edited on Oct 03 2024. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 03 2024.

• Marijuana.

  We smoked some great pato yesterday.

  • See more words with the same meaning: marijuana.

  Last edited on Feb 27 2003. Submitted by Michele from Philadelphia, PA, USA on Feb 27 2003.