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schlockware

noun

Etymology

From schlock (“shoddy or inferior commodity”) + -ware, from Yiddish שלאַק (shlak).

  1. derived from שלאַק

Definitions

  1. Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.

    • 1998, Larry Wall, quoted in "Open source gurus convene", C-Net E-Magazine, April 8, 1998. You'll do us all a big favor if you disassociate freeware from schlockware.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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