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cargo culting

noun

Etymology

From cargo cult + -ing.

  1. derived from cultus
  2. derived from culte
  3. compounded as cargo cult — “cargo + cult”
  4. suffixed as cargo culting — “cargo cult + ing”

Definitions

  1. An approach that copies an existing successful approach without properly analysing and…

    An approach that copies an existing successful approach without properly analysing and understanding it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cargo culting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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