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deflicted
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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Term used of hardware that is broken due to poor design or shoddy
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manufacturing or (especially) both; less frequently used of software and
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rarely of people. This term is normally employed in a tone of weary contempt
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by technicians who have seen the specific failure in the trouble report
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before and are cynically confident they'll see it again. Ultimately this may
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derive from Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe , on which the Fur Trapper
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infamously rubs his deflicted eyes...
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