The Devil’s Dictionary X™1,267 terms |
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- UAT
- acronym, User Acceptance Testing; the phase of software testing wherein a final version of a product is run by users to see how it stands up to normal usage—this type of testing is notoriously unreliable as unfortunately there is no way to force-feed shaved bunny rabbits your toxic HTML and Java applets to determine LD50.
- ugly
- differently pretty; beauty challenged.
- ulcer
- 1. an inflammation and festering rupture of the stomach, formed by simple malnutrition—specifically as a result of deficiency in the vitamins T, H, and C.
- 2. the only friend that will be hanging around in the crucial 2–3 weeks after your mate leaves you.
- ultimatum
- the logical “OR” operator, where the proposition is this OR that meaning only one of the two can be; the state of New Hampshire having one of the more succinct examples, “Live free or die,” while, rather unfortunately, doing neither.
- umbilical cord
- the noose from which we all hang and by which strive to become executioners in turn.
- uncle
- 1. one’s symbolic exclamation to the Universe, upon either accepting or quitting a job.
- 2. a lexicographer’s simplified relationship to more of you than want to know, regardless of what your mother will admit.
- unconditional
- 1. describing the type of love one receives in discretion.
- 2. describing anything which is given freely, with the word “if” strongly suggested thereafter in tone, expression, and consequences.
- underclass
- American usage, while once those who owned but a single television set, now anyone who owns only one summer house.
- underemployed
- 1. the state in which wine vendors and florists can find themselves off season.
- 2. one in whom a learning disability prevents the understanding of supply and demand.