:rabbit job: [Cambridge] n. A batch job that does little, if any,
real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like
rabbits. Compare {wabbit}, {fork bomb}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
eplicator: n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of
itself his could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a
program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb},
and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life},
sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}....