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creeping elegance n.
creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
creeping featuritis /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n. Variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerizatio
`feeping creaturitis'. Some people like to reserve this form for the disease a...
cretin /kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ n. Congenital lose
an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right....
cretinous /kret'n-*s/ or /kreet'n-*s/ adj. Wrong
stupid; non-functional; very poorly designed. Also used pejoratively of people....
crippleware n. 1. [common] Software that has some important functionality deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working version.
2. [Cambridge] Variety of gui...
critical mass n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing...
crlf /ker'l*f/, sometimes /kru'l*f/ or /C-R-L-F/ n.
(often capitalized as `CRLF') A carriage return (CR, ASCII 0001101) followed by a line feed (LF, ASCII 0001010)....
crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1.
An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
cross-post vi. [Usenet; very common] To post a single article simultaneously to several newsgroups.
Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly, once to each newsgroup, which cause...

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