Steved

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

  steved adj.,v. /steevd/ [Apple employees and users] Terminated, said of
     a development project. Originated after Steven P. Jobs returned to Apple
     as acting CEO in 1997. Jobs immediated axed several development
     projects, including OpenDoc and Newton that had been launched by John
     Sculley, the man who had ousted Jobs in the mid 1980s. Now any project
     shut down at Apple and often at any large firm connected with Apple may


     be said to have gotten steved. It is usually spelled lowercase despite
     the origin. It is almost always past-tense and used quasi-adjectivally.