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refactor 

The act of wasting a bunch of time rewriting old source code in an attemp to make it understandable, usable, and expandable.
wtf... 1200 lines in one function? Don't try to refactor that, just rewrite it.
refactor by AllUltima February 18, 2005
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refactoring

Refactoring is hell .
refactoring by Nyrox February 28, 2015

refactor 

New-age (or whatever) way to indicate you're rewriting someone's code. Maybe it's intended to sound less pejorative, but it's usually a smokescreen for rewriting someone's code under the guise of using unspecified, and therefore unassailable, "refactoring rules" of which only you are knowledgable.
1) Bill's "refactoring" Jane's code again. He think's he's a better programmer, but he's just a misogynist shitheel. Frankie should fire his raggedy ass.
2) When I change your code, I'm refactoring it. When you change my code, you're just fucking with it.
refactor by therealmookmerkin March 21, 2019

refactory period 

The period of time after a major software release where software developers temporarily suspend work on new features to refactor (cleanup) their code.
Good job pushing out version 2.1, guys. The next month will be a refactory period. Please clean up all the the kludges and hacks in our code.

- Management
refactory period by VMP94 November 19, 2017