Bogotify

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus. A program that
     has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has
     become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads
     on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified and you had better not use
     it any more. This coinage led to the notional `autobogotiphobia' defined
     as `the fear of becoming bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter


     has ever been `live' jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon
     about jargon. See also {bogosity}, {bogus}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  bogotify
       
           /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad.  A program
          that has been changed so many times as to become completely
          disorganised has become bogotified.  If you tighten a nut too
          hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become
          bogotified.
       
          See also {bogosity}.
       
          (2003-01-25)