crapplication

English

Etymology

Blend of crap +‎ application.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

crapplication (plural crapplications)

1. (computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.
   • 1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):

     By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.

   • 2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):

     Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.

Related terms

• crapplet