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Orphanware 

Orphanware is software that was purchased and installed, but no person in the company was assigned to or has taken responsibility for its operation and maintenance.

The end result is software which may be running on critical production systems, but no one in the organization exists to provide critical updates, reconfigure features or options, resolve outages, or guide users who need assistance with issues. Orphanware, or software which has been orphaned, is at risk of an unrecoverable catastrophic failure.

Since Orphanware has been purchased and installed, but isn't actively managed or kept up-to-date, it is differentiated from Shelfware, which was purchased but never installed; and Vaporware, which was never released in the first place.
All of our production software runs on Ubuntu and JBoss; after Bob, our only Windows/.NET expert left the company, all of our production Microsoft systems are Orphanware.
Orphanware by doctorgroove July 15, 2011
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orphanage 

fine dining if you ask me.
hey babe where are going to eat
only the best for my love. the orphanage
orphanage by givemehead5 November 22, 2019

Evil Baby Orphanage 

The humanitarian alternative to killing baby Hitler and other evil babies throughout time and space. Instead of erasing these evil figures such as Stalin, Attila the Hun, and Ranavalona the First, the Evil Baby Orphanage takes these babies and raises them to become awesome Nerdfighters.
Average guy: Dude, if we could time travel, we should totally kill baby Hitler.
Nerdfighter: No! We should put him in the Evil Baby Orphanage!

sock orphanage 

The container or receptacle used to store all the socks that become orphaned when their mates mysteriously disappear during the laundry cycle.
Jerry was able to "adopt" 21 pairs of socks during his year-end clean up of his sock orphanage. The remaining orphaned socks were euthanized.
sock orphanage by Sock Man December 27, 2009

knuckle children orphanage 

AKA foo-foo sock. Distiguished by its crinkled stuck-together fabric texture and usually found under the beds of adolescent males, it is the sock, or other fabric used by men to deposit the fruits of their masturbating escapades.
Johnny was horrified to walk in his room and find his knuckle children orphanage perched neatly on his pillow by his mother's cleaning efforts earlier that day. Unfortunately this was also the day that Sallie finally agreed to come home to his room after school.

Orphanage 

he lived in an orphanage
Orphanage by dark_god_joyboy July 30, 2023

Chipotle Orphanage 

When you walk into a restroom and all the toilets have chipotle childs in them, you have just stumbled upon a chipotle orphanage.
Dude, I went to take a crap and all the toilets had unflushed chipotle childs in them, this place must be a chipotle orphanage as no one is claiming them.
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
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NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
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Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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