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shovelware

noun
/ˈʃʌvəlwɛə(ɹ)/UK/ˈʃʌvəlwɛɚ/US

Etymology

From shovel + -ware.

  1. inherited from *skuflō✻
  2. inherited from scofl
  3. inherited from schovele
  4. formed as shovelware — “shovel + -ware”

Definitions

  1. A haphazard collection of software assembled in terms of quantity rather than quality.

  2. Traditional media content, such as printed news reports, republished hastily on the…

    Traditional media content, such as printed news reports, republished hastily on the Internet without considering the needs and capabilities of that medium.

  3. Video games of low quality

    • It also had to make it clear it would not allow publishers to simply port PC titles to the Xbox and pollute the platform with "shovelware."
    • We're a jaded bunch used to movie-licensed shovelware […]
    • Originally featured at E3 20011 and slated for publication by the now-defunct Crave Entertainment (mostly a publisher of Wii shovelware but also responsible for the early From Software RPG Eternal Ring and the PAL version of Vagrant[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA