decomp

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of decomposition or decomposed.

Noun

decomp (plural decomps)

1. (law enforcement, slang) Decomposition.

   There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.

2. (law enforcement, slang) A decomposed body.
   • 2007, John Leake, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer‎:

     "It's a decomp. There's gonna be maggots, and that means I'm gonna have nightmares."

   • 2007, John Luciew, Fatal Dead Lines‎:

     "It helped ventilate the place, especially when he had a decomp case. The coroner's offices were pitifully outdated."

Verb

decomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

1. (intransitive, law enforcement, slang, uncommon) To decompose.

Etymology 2

Shortening of decompile and decompilation.

Verb

decomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

1. (transitive, slang, hacking) To decompile (especially a video game).
   • 2021, Kyle Orland, "Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code", Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2022-03-17 (context: subtitle and title, here used in jest saying the hackers are so good they could decompile a sweater)

     If you want to decomp my sweater — Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code

Noun

decomp (plural decomps)

1. (slang, hacking) A decompilation (especially of a video game).
2. (slang, hacking, plural only) The results of a decompilation (especially of a video game).

Anagrams

• comped