To turn a mistake, blunder or error into an overwhelming accomplishment. May be used as a noun or verb.
Yes, he may have cost the company thousands of dollars in lost man hours due to testing the completely wrong application suite. Not to Botta the situation, but at least that suite he did test is now 100% fool proof and bug free.
one who botts. someone who likes to bott someone else, as opposed to a bottee - the one who is being botted.
can be derogatory meaning gay, queer, poof.
can be friendly meaning pal, buddy, mate.
"areet botta, it'smat, how ya doin?" (friendly)
"see that aidan, he's a right botta" (derogatory)
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.