ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Info-dump

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Info-dump is a noun meaning (literature) A long section in a work of fiction that reveals often tedious expository information through the voice of the narrator.

Meaning

(literature) A long section in a work of fiction that reveals often tedious expository information through the voice of the narrator.

More Meanings

  1. An act of sharing a large amount of information on a subject one is interested in, particularly as an activity by or among autistic people.
  2. (informal, slang, intransitive) To speak expositorily and at length regarding one's knowledge about a subject.
  3. (chiefly computing) A large volume of data supplied at the same time.

Example Sentences

Unfortunately, too many corporate meetings are info-dumps — convened for the sake of information exchange, which is more efficiently handled by phone or fax […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include infodump, dumper, dump, crashdump, database, minidump.

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