Configurate (noun): A discernable pattern, in the shape of the Hindu-Arabic numeral eight ("8"), created by a convicted criminal while engaged in any locomotive activity, either self-propelled (walking, running, skating, bicycling, etc.) or by way of a motorized conveyance (automobile, motorcycle, Hoverboard, Segway, etc.)
Gayle: "Can you believe that Donald Trump is actually going to be the next President of the United States?"
Bob: Yeah, I know. That's crazy, right? But I'm sure it won't be long before all of America gets to enjoy seeing Trump
Alex and Vivian were comparing how they set up their buddylists when Vivian remarked how Alex had a waste of space which Alex replied: "just an example of my past buddylist configurashenanigans"
Within the field of Information Technology, the act of implementing, possibly but not necessarily, good practice configurations without any business value just for the sake of using the available functionality and thereby creating the feeling of self satisfaction which has as the consequence that other involved parties are hindered in performing their day to day operations which invokes great frustration for said parties.
An architect suffering of configuration masochism designs the configuration of a totally private cloud instance in such a way that for each department in the company a small "firewalled" subnet is created while discarding the fact that in the end all services implemented by each department within their respective network segments have to communicate to each other in a non predictable way. Because of that an endless set of firewall and routing rules have to be created to make communication between these services possible which defeats the purpose of having firewalled network segments in the first place.