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cruft: /kruhft/

  [very common; back-formation from crufty]

  1. n. An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; the TMRC Dictionary correctly noted that attacking it with a broom only produces more.

  2. n. The results of shoddy construction.

  3. vt. [from hand cruft, pun on ‘hand craft’] To write assembler code for something normally (and better) done by a compiler (see hand-hacking).

  4. n. Excess; superfluous junk; used esp. of redundant or superseded code.

  5. [University of Wisconsin] n. Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese; that is, at UW one properly says “a cruft of hackers”.

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