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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WOMBAT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="womb-box.html" title="womb box"/><link rel="next" href="womble.html" title="womble"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WOMBAT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womb-box.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="womble.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WOMBAT"/><dt xmlns="" id="WOMBAT"><b>WOMBAT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wom<6F>bat/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems
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which are both profoundly <a href="../U/uninteresting.html"><i class="glossterm">uninteresting</i></a> in
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themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved.
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Often used in fanciful constructions such as <span class="firstterm">wrestling with a wombat</span>. See also
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<a href="../C/crawling-horror.html"><i class="glossterm">crawling horror</i></a>, <a href="../S/SMOP.html"><i class="glossterm">SMOP</i></a>. Also
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note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in
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<a href="../C/Commonwealth-Hackish.html"><i class="glossterm">Commonwealth Hackish</i></a>.</p><p>Users of the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> database program
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DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as their notional mascot; the program's help
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file responded to “<span class="quote">HELP WOMBAT</span>” with factual information about
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Real World wombats.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womb-box.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="womble.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">womb box<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>womble</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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