Dilbert said "To improve the constipated decision-making at our oversized and bloated department, we must excrapolate the wasteful practices!!"
The new employee said, "There are so many policies and procedures in this friggin' department, only an experienced excrapolator can get anything done!!"
a verb, with the definition – to estimate data by pulling answers out of one's ass.
Related words interpolate, extrapolate – interpolate, meaning to estimate a value between two or more known points, and extrapolate, meaning to estimate a value beyond two or more known points.
Pulling something (a number, estimate, fact, stat, idea) out of your ass. Used when sufficient data either doesn't exist, or you're too lazy to do the research.
Hey, Bill. I don't have time to pull together an actual project estimate for you, so let me apply a little anal extrapolation to get you some numbers.