Adjectival phrase:
Used when someone running a project or task needs to explain to people he is answerable to, who don't have the skills or knowledge to understand what is going on, that the project is still at an early stage (prototype or rough cut) and will significantly improve in quality of appearance and content by the time it is finished.
This is the initial look and feel which is very rough but we are going to spoodle it all up and make it more betterer before we finish.
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To suck off. Verb.
To transfer data from one computer to your own over a network, by direct file system link or by ftp.
Can you put all the data files on the ftp site and tell me when they are uploaded so I can suck them off.
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Noun.
A project management term used to describe technical processes, particularly programming, to people who wouldn't understand them if they were described fully.
We'll rough you up a set of graphics and a project definition. When you've signed that off, we'll do stuff until the project is finished. The stuff will probably take about 3 months.
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When you are playing a game such as Mechwarrior or Battletech involving giant walking robot tanks, and your robot gets so badly shot up that it becomes a shed, and you stay in the game and become even more badly shot up, your robot will become a hut.
"I was a shed and now I am a hut. I really must retreat."
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Verb. To telecottage / telecottaging.
Working from a home in the country with computer communication.
Nothing to do with cottaging.
I sold my flat in London and bought a cottage in Norfolk. Then I had a 2mbps line installed so I could telecottage.
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Japanese hotels that rent rooms by the hour for daytime use by couples.
Shibuya is the best place to take your girlfriend to a love hotel.
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Transitive verb. Slang, meaning to accept a bribe or some other sub rosa payment, usually in cash. That is, to take the money and slip it into your trouser pocket.
Mr Fayed offered a brown envelope and Hamilton trousered it straight away.
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