desktritus

Pile of useless files cluttering up your computer's desktop.

Why don't you delete some of these old downloads and unused shortcuts once in a while? I can't even see where your 'My Computer' folder is within all this desktritus!

by Noel Versten October 23, 2008

desktritus

the random accumulated tchotchkes, stationery, and detritus found on/in a desk. From desk + detritus = desktritus.

It was only when I left my job that I realized how much desktritus I'd accumulated in four years.

by multeacher October 25, 2023

digital detritus

The thousands of email addresses, blogs, GeoCities sites, AngelFire and Tripod pages that are floating around cyberspace, neglected by creators who have forgotten the passwords to the accounts.

I made a GeoCities page when I was in high school and have no idea what the URL is, it's just another piece of digital detritus now.

by DT Blair October 1, 2010

detritus

Stuff left behind, shit that no one wants. From Latin. Often used when the speaker expects that the listener won't know what the word means. This word is commonly used to describe the pile of bones and feathers that the hawk leaves behind after he eats the pigeon.

* Is that your detritus there?
* Why is all this detritus in the back seat of my car?

Pronounced DEE-truh-tus

by dbushong June 9, 2005

Desktris

Desktris (Desk & Tetris): When you switch desks at work and you have to arrange everything so that's it really neat and tidy with everything slotted perfectly in its assigned place... before it inevitably gets messy as the desk is no longer "new". A bit like those elusive "neat books" in Primary School where you take extra care in making sure that your handwriting is really tidy on the first page, but then it just all goes to shit and you give up when you spell something wrong and have to scribble it out; or the next page doesn't have 50-odd pages underneath it and it doesn't feel as nice to write on... or you notice that you pushed the pencil* so hard that it's made an imprint on the 3rd page and now it looks like one of those old receipt books that some businesses have.

*Pen if you were in Year 6

"Need to finish desktris before we can have our morning meeting"

by R11thfc September 24, 2016

detritus

A useless person, someone that fails to be good at necessarily anything. Trash.

After her career collapsed, Lindsey Lohan became detritus.

by c.montroseisgay May 9, 2011

Detritus Dave

A man who’s liver is quickly decomposing due to a constant flow of IPA’s.

Detritus Dave just got off work and is heading to the bar to get his fix.

by 1000fun October 6, 2018