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A measurement of length of a piece of writing, particularly when indicating a length excessive for the genre. A Yegge is approximately 4000 words or 25 kilobytes.

Named for well known programmer and technical blogger Steve Yegge, whose blog up to about 2009 was notorious for entries of approximately 1 or 2 Yegges in length, vastly exceeding the typical length of blog entries in the genre.
"I knew breaking up with him was a good idea after I got an email two Yegges long listing all the reasons why I should take him back."
Yegge by Puzzlement November 7, 2011
Words you can keep
To send on an email or post something to a social website that could mean career suicide, including the ten second period immediately following where you look in vain for a way to unsend and hope beyond reason that nobody will notice what you wrote.

Named after Steve Yegge, the Google engineer who publicly flamed his management and coworkers in other departments because he posted a long-winded rant to his public circle on Google+.
"You should have seen the look on Steve's face over in his cubicle... He totally yegge'd a 1,000 page diatribe against Larry, Sergey, and another department's engineers to his public circle on Google+."
Yegge by TheFahrvergnugen October 22, 2011
Related Words
yegge Yegger yegget Mrs. Yegge yigger yegg Yeager yagger yogger yeagerism
one who takes pleasure in cruel battles of spite, burgles anything and everything, can't help but eat his burger, enjoys the occasional wedgy or melvin, and reeks of rotten eggs.
"That yegge kid is the biggest turd burgler I know."
yegge by Sara December 16, 2004
OTHER YEGGE's NOT ALL CRAZY. MOST SENSITIVE AND KIND NOT LIKE LAST DEFENITION.
BRYAN
bryan is a great example not to be confused with the other BRIAN
yegge by bryan March 29, 2005

Mrs. Yegge 

Stupid bitch who gives out way too much homework.trys to get into students pants after class.
Person 1: "Hey man want to go smoke some weed bra?"
Person 2: "No man i can't, i got mrs. yegge today shit nigga mo fucker . "
Mrs. Yegge by dfdfdfdfdfdfdfdf April 7, 2009

Yeagercoin

Any cryptocurrency that has no real intrinsic value and may or may not be valuable in the future (but probably not). Can also refer to any speculative assets that are worth nothing at the present time.

Also spelled Jägercoin

From the German word for hunter, indicating a high risk vs. reward situation.
"Do you have a spare couch? I can't afford my rent ever since my boss started paying us in Yeagercoin"

- "What's the exchange rate on your company's Yeagercoin these days?
- "Still $0"
Yeagercoin by statyzo October 5, 2017

Zeke Yeager 

Reject Humanity return to Zeke Yeager.
Zeke Yeager by Hubson March 9, 2021
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age gate 

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Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
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board chow 

A)
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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*
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young pup 

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.
Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!
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