Definition of shovelware
shovelware 
noun - uncountable
- low-quality software. Often collected and sold on low-priced CDs or DVDs.
Those $10 software CD-ROMs just contain a bunch of shovelware.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
- See more words with the same meaning: junk, garbage, trash, useless items.
Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: to hack, with the result being something quickly and sloppily created, or modified to solve a particular problem. | |
| Definitions include: outdoors. | |
| Definitions include: to work on a pre-existing problem, program, or piece of source code. | |
| Definitions include: an insufficient (and often dismissive) explanation of something complex. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "one of my followers". | |
| Definitions include: From Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I don't even know". | |
| Definitions include: to happen automatically, in a way that appears almost magical. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "bulletin board system". | |
| Definitions include: very cold. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "hit me up". | |
| Definitions include: an attractive person. | |
| Definitions include: to contact a person via an Internet-based "Instant Messaging" service, such as MSN Instant Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger. | |
| Definitions include: a "syndrome" involving a company's hesitance or refusal to use any idea or product it didn't invent or create. | |
| Definitions include: see e-penis. | |
Other terms relating to 'junk, garbage, trash, useless items': | |
| Definitions include: to ruin writable optical media via a write ("burn") attempt which fails. | |
| Definitions include: unwanted optical media (e.g. CDs) received as junk mail. | |
| Definitions include: junk or salvage yards | |
| Definitions include: software that was purchased or written, but never used. | |
| Definitions include: tattoo. | |
| Definitions include: to throw away, i.e. put into a trash bin. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
Other terms relating to 'shovel': | |
| Definitions include: quickly. | |
| Definitions include: a prototypical menial or dirty job. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for a harley-davidson shovelhead motorccycle. | |
| Definitions include: A girl so ugly she looks like she got hit with a shovel. | |
Other terms relating to 'software': | |
| Definitions include: software still under copyright, but which is no longer distributed, sold, or supported. | |
| Definitions include: legitimate software that is free to use, but displays advertising. | |
| Definitions include: a type of shareware that interrupts use of the software to display a message asking the user to "register" the software (i.e. pay for it.) | |
| Definitions include: computer software that occupies too many resources due to its preponderance of features. | |
| Definitions include: a form of shareware where, in lieu of the "registration" fee, the author asks that users donate to a charity. | |
| Definitions include: a form of shareware where, in lieu of the "registration" fee, the author asks that users donate to a charity. | |
| Definitions include: software that has had features disabled to entice people to upgrade to a for-pay or more expensive version. | |
| Definitions include: "Freeware" was originally the trademark of "PC-Talk" author Andrew Fluegelman. | |
| Definitions include: shareware that uses guilt to encourage users to pay the "registration" cost. | |
| Definitions include: software that does bad things. | |
| Definitions include: shareware software that nags the user if it hasn't yet been purchased. | |
| Definitions include: a type of shareware that only requires users to send a postcard to the author in order to purchase it. | |
| Definitions include: software that is free to share with others and is - at least initially - free to use. | |
| Definitions include: software that was purchased or written, but never used. | |
| Definitions include: software delivered in physical form. | |
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