A cultural shorthand, often humorous, catchy, or
jargonistic, that simplifies or stylises a more complex or abstract concept, making it more
memorable and widely accepted in common
discourse.
"The funnyword for performing quality assurance by
bombarding software with random inputs - akin to a crazed chimp pounding on a keyboard to see what happens - is monkey testing."
"It's this big abstract *thing* that no-one understands, incredibly complex
infrastructure that stores your files so you can access them from anywhere - but anyway the funnyword for
all that is the cloud. "