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• chrome n. [from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of a system.
  The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they certainly are pretty chrome!...
• bells and whistles: [by analogy with the toyboxes on theater organs] n.
  Features added to a program or system to make it more {flavorful} from a hacker's point of view, without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function....
• bells and whistles n. [common] Features added to a program or system to make it more flavorful from a hacker's point of view
  without necessarily adding to its utility for its primary function....
• feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary feature
  a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features....
• yntactic sugar: [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for huma
  features which do not affect the expressiveness of the formalism (compare {chrome})....
• wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• feeping creature n. [from feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature
  a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....