crapplication
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Etymology edit
Blend of crap + application
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Noun edit
crapplication (plural crapplications)
- (computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.
- 1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):
- By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.
- 2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):
- Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.