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upgrating 

(verb): when a software upgrade or update causes more harm than good.
"Man, everyone warned me about upgrating to Mac OS 10.5.7 . Now my fans spin out of control as well".
upgrating by nickpellow August 4, 2009
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Updating 

Dating above your level of hotness, intelligence, economic stature, or overall likability.
David Spade is constantly updating.

Updating by Cammie B February 2, 2009

Updating Whore 

Someone who updates their Facebook status every two or three minutes. Other substitutes of the social networking site may include, but are not limited to Twitter, Myspace, and Flickr.
Dude your such a freaking updating whore, you just updated your status from two minutes ago.
Updating Whore by Zhyposis October 23, 2009

Upgrading to Windows 7 

Smart people do this when their computer comes with an inferior operating system, especially Windows 8.
Matt: Hey Aidan, I got this totally awesome new laptop! It's got an Intel Core i7 quad-core, dual Nvidia graphics and 12GB of memory!

Aidan: What operating system does it have? Windows 8?

Matt: Yep, so I'm gonna be upgrading to Windows 7!

Aidan: Then we can play Borderlands!
Upgrading to Windows 7 by matthewj4x February 23, 2014

Updating Steam 

When you're really pumped up to play a game from your Steam library, but Steam needs to do it's daily updates. Updating Steam can take anywhere form 4 seconds to 15 minutes if you are really unlucky. Some say it takes the Power of the Cosmos to stop this process, but no one can confirm as anyone who tries to stop it vanishes. Lord Gaben orders his FBI agents to capture those who have the intention of breaking the rules of Steam.
1. Micheal: "Where the hell are you? We have a game tournament today and you haven't even started up the game."
Kyle: "Steam keeps giving me this 'Updating Steam' Pop-up. I wonder if I can exit out of it..."
Micheal: "No Kyle! Don't!"
FBI: "FBI OPEN UP!"

2. Person: "Hell yeah! I just bought a bundle of Steam games for a cheap price and let them install overnight. I am now going to play some of the best games on the market."
*Clicks on Steam, Steam Updating*
Person: "Welp."
*Spins revolver*
Updating Steam by Wheatboi July 24, 2018

Upgradinate 

The process of upgrading your code while keeping close to master and not creating branch chaos. Essentially feature switching the upgrade until it's ready
We ran upgradinate on our project, upgrading it from Ruby 1.8.7 to 1.9.3!
Upgradinate by rukuro December 13, 2012

Updating OS

the slowest, longest, most painful task in the history of updating numbers
Patrick is updating OS. I bet he doesn't get anything else done today.
Updating OS by thebeerwolf October 4, 2022
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