Browsing page 4 of new words for August 14, 2009

noun

• a friend, usually white.

  What's up crackas?

  You my cracka.

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  Last edited on Jan 27 1998. Submitted by Nick A. from Narragansett, RI, USA on Jan 27 1998.

• a person who uses computers maliciously. This usually involves "cracking" security.

  Some cracker group broke into our Wordpress installation and defaced it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  
  Citation from Communications of the ACM, Volume 27 (1984) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

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  Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• Also a racial slur. For more details see here.

  Last edited on Jan 05 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 05 2010.

noun

• a worthless small program. Often used in reference to the vendor-installed software that comes pre-installed on new PCs and cellular phones. From "crap" + "applet". Also spelled crapplet.
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  Last edited on Nov 05 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

noun

• in computing, a spectacular crash.

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

• a spectacular failure.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 15 2011.

verb - intransitive

• of an attempt to attract a member of the opposite sex, to fail miserably.

  You definitely crashed and burned with her.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by Annie P. from New York, NY, USA on Nov 25 2001.

• to failure spectacularly.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 15 2011.

noun - uncountable

• software that has had features disabled to entice people to upgrade to a for-pay or more expensive version.
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  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• lower-priced hardware that has had some part of its capability deliberately disabled to encourage people to purchase a more expensive model.

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

noun - uncountable

• superfluous source code that has yet to be removed.

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

• in software, layers of poorly written source code that have accumulated over a great length of time.

  There's so much cruft that there's no way we're going to be able to implement that feature on schedule.

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

adjective

• of software, poorly built due to the accumulation of code written over a long period of time.

  It works decently, but if you crack it open, you can tell it's pretty crufty.

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  Last edited on Nov 08 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

verb - transitive

• to repair or fix something that has been hosed.

  Could you go dehose the large format printer?

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  Last edited on Nov 08 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

verb - intransitive

• to fail in a grand way.

  We just put the beta version on the website, but it turns out it dies horribly whenever users have a printer connected.

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

adjective

• underpowered.

  There's no way your dinky car will make it up the mountain.

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  Last edited on Nov 12 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• small.
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  Last edited on Aug 26 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

noun

• penis.
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  Last edited on Mar 10 2011. Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 10 2011.