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Borken Adj. (also `borked') Common Deliberate Typo For `broken'.
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borken adj.
(also `borked') Common deliberate typo for
`broken'.
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Bad and Wrong adj. [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly executed.
This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast with, three less common terms - Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but functional)...
asbestos adj. [common] Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from flame
also in other highly flame-suggestive usages. See, for example, asbestos longjoh...
Typo in the code
wonky /wong'kee/ adj. [from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for broken.
Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse....
baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....
has the X nature [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
interrupts locked out adj. When someone is ignoring you.
In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out"....
interrupts locked out: adj. When someone is ignoring you.
In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out"....
broken adj. 1. Not working properly (of programs).
2. Behaving strangely; especially (when used of people) exhibiting extreme depression....