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During an agile project there is usually a time when the consultants have gone home and it's clear that things are quite as rosey as they'd have you believe that they were to be in the agile seminar that you took. Usually around this time the daily scrum transforms in to scratus. Communication becomes more vague, engineers take a defensive posture whereby they always accomplish something that is important to the project yet the project doesn't get closer to completion. The ultimate tell tale sign of scratus is when the managment is very tense and the engineering team refers to their work by the defect number or feature number rather than the actual feature or defect in English.
Manager: What did you work on yesterday Bill?

Bill: I closed defects 1234,5432, 3212 and 3422. I also worked on feature 1.7 from the requirements.

Manager: Are you blocked?

Bill: No sir.

Manager: Did you update our Rally online agile tracking platform with your progress?

Bill <in nervous voice now>: Yes sir. I do before every scratus, er, I mean scrum.

Manager: When will 1.7 be done?!?

Bill <meekly>: Maybe next week.

Manager: Who's next? We've got a deadline people!
scratus by A. Hacker August 7, 2006
Words you can keep
A term used for a little Scrooge rat that never responds. A term often used about a person with the name Matthew Allfrey.
Hey guys, this guy is a Scratus. He’s gone on do not disturb
Scratus by Sexy Louis boi January 25, 2022
In Italian, it means something crummy, sleazy, ugly in a general sense and bothersome. Something that doesn't rouse or stimulate pleasure, generally referred to situations or places rather than people.
Questo posto è proprio scrauso!!

This place is really scrauso!!
scrauso by Daiv Safari March 25, 2008

Titanic Untouched Stratus

Titanic Untouched is known as the ship of roleplay. She is the first one and only one to have the name Titanic. She is a sweet kind hearted person but she does have a backbone. She is apart of a site called RATEDR. She is apart of the Stratus family and the main Untouched.
me-"did you see Titanic Untouched Stratus today"
random girl-"yeah, her family and her look so close"

Dodge Stratus 

Noun: A Dodge sedan from the nineties, driven by those who demand respect
Will Ferrel: I drive a DODGE STRATUS!
The area on a man's body found between the scrotum and anus. Also known as "the seams of life" because if one tears his scranus his soul will fall out.
I tore my scranus and my soul fell out.
scranus by professor nutsack August 11, 2003

Trish Stratus 

World Wrestling Entertainment Diva/Wrestler; 6 Time Women's Champion, 3 Time Babe of the Year, Diva of the Decade, Former Fitness Model and TAG Huntress.

Born in Richmond Hill Ontario, Canada on December 18, 1975 making her thirty years old. Has appeared in multiple magazines and on their covers, although she has never done Playboy. Has been on MADtv twice, done comedy shows up in Canada and will be hosting the 2006 Canada Walk of Fame. She has been employeed by the WWE since 2000. Her real name is Patricia Anne Stratigias and she has two sisters, Christie and Melissa. She still lives in Canada despite working in the US with the WWE.
Trish Stratus holds the women's champion a record of six times.
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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

age gate 

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
age gate by Banja January 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow 

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007
Word of the Day on August 26, 2026

young pup 

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.
Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!
young pup by the dog May 30, 2006
Word of the Day on August 25, 2026
West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006
Word of the Day on August 24, 2026
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