Whereas a modern web software application has separate layers for presentation (user interface), business logic, and storage etc. (because modular construction is easier to build and debug) it is usually called an "n-tier architecture", where n represents the number of modules or layers. It is much more secure and robust than the "old way" (1-tier), where one machine was the web server, file server, database, and firewall. A program which has illogical or insufficient rules (i.e. absence of business logic) can be termed "(n-1) tier", as a crucial part (usually the part that makes the software smart or helpful) has obviously been omitted by scatterbrained developers, detached managers, clueless requirements analysts, dumb pilot members, etc.
Employee A: Did you submit your travel costs yet?
Employee B: No, our stupid online expense system kept giving me a cryptic error.
Employee A: Yup, that EOM app is an (n-1) tier system...
Boss: I need you to fix your time charges for last week. You entered 45 hours instead of 4.5 hours on Wednesday.
Subject: Must've been a fat-finger. Too bad our accounting system can't catch that obvious error. It's just another (n-1) tier waste of code.
Employee B: No, our stupid online expense system kept giving me a cryptic error.
Employee A: Yup, that EOM app is an (n-1) tier system...
Boss: I need you to fix your time charges for last week. You entered 45 hours instead of 4.5 hours on Wednesday.
Subject: Must've been a fat-finger. Too bad our accounting system can't catch that obvious error. It's just another (n-1) tier waste of code.
by k3for June 3, 2010
Get the (n-1) tiermug. by wordington_thug June 5, 2024
Get the Dump N’ Pumpmug. "my n and b keys are broken, so i have to copy and paste them every time they're used in a sentence."
by breadenjoyer March 16, 2024
Get the n and bmug. When you're squatting on the hotel toilet sucking his dick while you squeeze out the pork and poi from last night's luau.
Was giving him the old hawaiian suck n push when my kids walked in, And I had to explain this is the only way mommy can poop.
by PseudAwesonym March 16, 2024
Get the Hawaiian suck n pushmug. Euphemism used by the white devils in place of the world the word "Knucklehead" Black people get royally pissed if they hear white devils refer to them as either because it doesn't show the proper respect to their people. They demand the white devils give them that respect by referring to the black man as a Nigger. The white devils refuse because they don't like being referred to as a "kracka" The white devils insist they won't stop untill the black man shows respect and refers to the them devils as honkeys In the mind of the white devils they have already shown enough respect because they don't call black people "Raisins" Damn you. You white devils. You.
Fuck you n word. Better stop calling me a kracka. I don't cal you a raisin do I? Fuck no I call you a Knucklehead. So better start calling me a honkey before I lynch you ya fuckin jiggerboo
by Whitewomenlovethatniggaspear January 10, 2024
Get the N Wordmug. by liam1990 September 3, 2007
Get the meet`nmug. The that dirty bitch
by MDMA DEALER November 20, 2014
Get the slap 'n' tapmug.