A term
frequently used in software
engineering to describe rogue or katty-whompus behavior in
source code. Often there is an unspoken agreement between two parties in which only one of the parties has agreed on and has therefore created undocumented, unreliable, and buggy source code.
Bill: Man, I am really tired today.
Jane: Why is that, Bill?
Bill: Well I spent
all day chasing software bugs in our local
repository and was able to trace it to a geckert.
Jane: Why does that always seem to happen
around here?