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(Verb, Software Engineering related)
To ignore something completely.
Root: In most unix systems there's a device called /dev/null. This device will ignore everything forwarded to it. Likewise when someone "devnull"s something they completely ignore it as it never existed.
Siavash: Sam, ya heard about new Microsoft Windows 8?
Sam: That doesn't even exist yet!
Siavash: Listen to me, it looks great! just try it once.
Sam: are you devnulling me?
Devnull by BrainX January 1, 2010
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Some random oldie hanging around Fubar looking at the nekkid chicks and generally making half-assed stupid posts.
Devnull posted a really lame comment in the Newbie Intro forum. He lose!
devnull by devnull December 10, 2004
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/dev/null is a character device file on UNIX computer operating systems that accepts all data written to it, without storing it. It can be opened by many processes simultaneously, and writing to it doesn't cause the file to grow. Formally, it's described as being an infinite data sink. In shell programming, unwanted output from a command can be redirected there. For example:

find / 2>/dev/null

This would display the full paths to all the accessible files on the computer, without displaying the "Permission denied" errors that are likely to occur.

When programs try to read from /dev/null, they get an end-of-file error.

The idea of a null device was imitated by Microsoft in MS-DOS. In DOS, 'NUL' is a reserved filename. When you open a file with that name, DOS opens its equivalent of /dev/null. This behavior was inherited by Windows. In Windows,
even versions of it that are based on the NT kernel, you cannot create a file called "NUL".

It is usually pronounced as "dev null", not "slash dev, slash null." Programmers sometimes refer to /dev/null as a place to send any unwanted information, even if, for example, the data is being transmitted as spoken words from a human's mouth.
"I didn't give a shit about what the Resident was saying, so I simply redirected everything he said to /dev/null."
/dev/null by Shaka Zulu September 2, 2004

Devaulle 

sweet, handsome guy. Very romantic. Athletic: football player. Stubborn at times. ALWAYS right about what he knows. Stands for his own. Stays true, honest, and loving to his spouse/girlfriend/wife. its origin is Duvall, which is french for valley.
she's dating a sweet guy named devaulle. =)
Devaulle by K.b Barber June 29, 2011
A email storing program designed with processing spam in mind.
Ex-Boy/Girlfirend: II stored your fucking email in /dev/null.
/dev/null by Nanoha Takamachi September 1, 2009
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026

Nerd neck 

A "human" that spends so much time playing video games that their posture is level nerd neck. Everytime anyone goes tryhard they hunch down and their neck gets longer there fore a nerd neck is always hunched down cause they're always going try hard. In other words a nerd neck is a try hard, since their neck is 100% longer than the average human being due to playing too many video games and taking them serious, nerd necks are not even considered human anymore but something more sad. Nerd necks are often found on fortnite, their natural habitat usually being tilted towers.
What a fucking nerd neck!

He is building so fast, nerd neck!

Looser more like a nerd neck ha!
Nerd neck by D Sandwich Maker February 5, 2019
Word of the Day on June 25, 2026