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Ubroutine /stuhb'roo-teen/ N. [contraction Of `stub Subroutine'] Tiny, Often Vacuous Placeholder For A Subroutine That Is To Be Written Or Fleshed Out Later.
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stubroutine /stuhb'roo-teen/ n.
[contraction of `stub
subroutine'] Tiny, often vacuous placeholder for a subroutine that
is to be written or fleshed out later.
Related:
ubroutine: /stuhb'roo-teen/ [contraction of `stub subroutine'] n.
Tiny, often vacuous placeholder for a subroutine that is to be written or fleshed out later....
CNS: Call Nonexistent Subroutine
JRSR: Jump to Random SubRoutine
GOTO, GOING TO, GONE TO ~ Borg subroutine
We all live in a mellow subroutine.
We all live in a yellow subroutine.
ROO: Rub Out Operato
phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
POPJ /pop'J/ n.,v. [from a PDP-10 return-from-subroutine instruction] To return from a digression.
By verb doubling, "Popj, popj" means roughly "Now let's see, where were we?" See RTI....