Weeds

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Parts of this article are based on the Jargon File, v. 4.4.7,
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weeds
Usage: n.


weeds: n.

  1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from `off in the weeds'. Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds...."
  2. At CDC/ETA before its demise, the phrase go off in the weeds was equivalent mainstream hackerdom's jump off into never-never land.
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Source: weeds, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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