bogotify

bogotify
 /boh.go'[email protected]:/, vt.

   To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many times
   as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified. If you
   tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has
   become bogotified and you had better not use it any more. This coinage
   led to the notional autobogotiphobia defined as `the fear of becoming
   bogotified'; but is not clear that the latter has ever been `live'
   jargon rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about jargon. See
   also {bogosity}, {bogus}.
    

bogotify
autobogotiphobia

   <jargon> /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad.  A program
   that has been changed so many times as to become completely
   disorganised has become bogotified.  If you tighten a nut too
   hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become
   bogotified.

   See also {bogosity}.

   (2003-01-25)