Skip to main content

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
Words you can keep

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.
More from Urban Dictionary

Coyote Ugly

1. Place

The Bar came before the movie. It is an awesome bar where the girls know how to party and make you feel okay about giving up your money, drawers, bras, and dignity.

2. Movie

A story about a Jersey girl following her dreams, aided by working at this bar in New York.

3. Situation/Person/Decision

See other definitions - waking up next to someone so ugly you'd rather chew your arm off than wake them up.
1. Yo, Coyote Ugly is my favorite bar! I got whipped, stripped, drunk, and danced on the bar all before 7 o'clock!

2. Hey did you see Coyote Ugly? It actually has a plot!

3. Ugg I woke up to Coyote Ugly this morning!
Coyote Ugly by jerseycountry March 8, 2009
Word of the Day on September 2, 2026

Literally 1984 

Used in response for when someone promotes/advocates an event or idea that is perceived to support "too much" authority and/or government control.

Often used jokingly as a over-exaggeration in political talk.

Can also be used in response to a ban or mute in a forum site or online chat.
Steve: I think that the government should regulate businesses more
Bob: Literally 1984!

--User1 has been permantly banned--
User2: You cant ban my friend like that! Literally 1984!
Literally 1984 by ke1 July 7, 2021
Word of the Day on September 1, 2026

Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
Word of the Day on August 31, 2026
Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026
Next