bogotify

2 definitions found

bogotify - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  bogotify
  autobogotiphobia
  
     <jargon> /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad.  A program
     that has been changed so many times as to become completely
     disorganised has become bogotified.  If you tighten a nut too
     hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become
     bogotified.
  
     See also bogosity.
  
     (2003-01-25)
  

bogotify - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  bogotify
   /boh.go't@.fi:/, vt.
  
     To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many
  times
     as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified. If you
     tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt
  has
     become bogotified and you had better not use it any more. This
  coinage
     led to the notional autobogotiphobia defined as `the fear of becoming
     bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been `live'
     jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about jargon. See
     also bogosity, bogus.