String smashing is a technique for solving complex structurals problem in computer science with excessive use of string concatenation. Typically results in extremely high cyclomatic complexity, unmaintanable code, and developer insanity.
Building an in application "search engine" for a relational database by having thousands of lines of PHP code that builds a massive string containing an sql query.
A simple example of string smashing would be the following line of pseudo code.
"select" + COLUMNS + "from" + TABLE_NAME + "where" + GET_CONSTRAINTS()
A simple example of string smashing would be the following line of pseudo code.
"select" + COLUMNS + "from" + TABLE_NAME + "where" + GET_CONSTRAINTS()
by benju May 9, 2013
Get the string smashingmug. The belief that every decision, emotion, or relationship is tangled in a web of invisible threads—and pulling one always yanks five others.
I tried to fix my schedule and ended up in a full-on string theory of life moment—now I’m rethinking my career and my coffee order.
by Briton Phillip October 18, 2025
Get the String Theory of Lifemug. by Rowbaretow February 26, 2014
Get the string beaningmug. by creepyweirdo April 15, 2020
Get the G Stringmug. by Mole_qwertybollocks July 15, 2024
Get the cunts on a stringmug. Having the jizz slowly drip down from a persons penis to form a jizz string. You must carefully swing it and say “cast away” as it goes into someone’s or your own mouth.
by Barrett D. Ben March 9, 2025
Get the String Fishingmug. If someone is trying to make you feel sorry for them, especially with the intentions of getting something from you, they are “playing with your heart strings”.
My buddy must be broke again; he called me “playing on my heart strings”. That’s his favorite way to get money without even asking.
by MachTool October 4, 2022
Get the playing on my heart stringsmug.