Skunkworks

Refers to a project in development by a small group of people mainly for innovation.
Also is an official alias for the Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Programs and the name of a heavy metal album by Bruce Dickinson.

Lets start a skunkworks

by PoetryRaven March 19, 2009

Skunkworks

Failure

Did you taste those burgers, they were real skunkworks

by Desparatestudent February 25, 2009

The Skunkworks

A skunkworks is a group of people who, in order to achieve unusual results, work on a project in a way that is outside the usual rules. A skunkworks is often a small team that assumes or is given responsibility for developing something in a short time with minimal management constraints. Typically, a skunkworks has a small number of members in order to reduce communications overhead. A skunkworks is sometimes used to spearhead a product design that thereafter will be developed according to the usual process. A skunkworks project may be secret.

Hey Bob, how's life in The Skunkworks?

by pinecon August 29, 2004

plutocratic skunkworks

The treacherous efforts of the 1% to grow their wealth and power through secretive, unethical and immoral laws created by corporate lobbyists, groups of super rich individuals and corrupt politicians. super rich, 1%, corporations, elite, multinationals, multinational corporations, lobbyist, politicians, tech companies, Wall Street, the Bilderbergs, Committee on Foreign Relations, billionaires, millionaires, plutocrat

I think the one-percent use plutocratic skunkworks to manipulate the federal government and the stock market for their own benefit.

by joecoolthefool August 13, 2016