Cruft

Quick meaning: Cruft is a noun meaning (computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.

Meaning

(computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.

More Meanings

1. (film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
2. (computing, slang) To generate cruft.
3. (slang) Anything that is old or of inferior quality.

Example Sentences

Best developer practices run the gamut from keeping the cruft out of your code to ensuring your code is accessible to all your application or site’s users.

Sawyer cites responses to a message saying "there is cruft in [Perl]" as the excuse some Perl community members used to "push him into a corner" until he deactivated his Twitter account.

The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.

Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which aggregates to stuff that they don't want anybody to know,” Moglen said.

Word Forms

• crufts
• crufting
• crufted

Synonyms for cruft

Depending on context, synonyms include clutter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crapfest, crap, clunker, crapmobile, loser, craporama.

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