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deflicted
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Term used of hardware that is broken due to poor design or shoddy
manufacturing or (especially) both; less frequently used of software and
rarely of people. This term is normally employed in a tone of weary contempt
by technicians who have seen the specific failure in the trouble report
before and are cynically confident they'll see it again. Ultimately this may
derive from Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe , on which the Fur Trapper
infamously rubs his deflicted eyes...