Verb
1. The art of clumsily finding harm in any otherwise harmless software.
2. To become a magnet for technical glitches.
3. To impulsively activate computer interface elements without thinking or knowing.
"I didn't even TOUCH it, now it's DOING something!"
"No, you Dad Clicked."
--Regular Car Reviews (YouTube): 1978 Mercedes Benz CD300 W123, 3 minutes, 0 seconds
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Value rating of a person based on how many mouse clicks or screen taps it takes to find their naked photos on the internet.
*Watching a movie*
Dude: Who's that girl? I'm going to check her click factor.
Dude: 3 clicks and I see her titties.
Other dude: Click factor of 3, not bad but sheβs no star.
When a technical person (developer, engineer, scientist, et al.) uses a UI tool to solve a problem instead of the command line or underlying program.
The 'elephant' comes from the PostgreSQL elephant and the many related SQL GUI clients that allow developers to avoid using SQL from the command line for queries. However, this phrase is not limited to PostgreSQL and can refer to any other GUI or related to tool that allows a user to click around to find their way.
This phrase originated at Even Financial, an incomparable Fintech company in the heart of NYC.
Alex: I use the debugger to step-through my code when there's unexpected behavior.
Ross: STOP ELEPHANT CLICKING, YOU ELEPHANT CLICKER!!!
In a transgender person whose gender reassignment surgery has gone awry, a click is a clit that has been turned into a dick, but poorly. Also known as the megaclit.
Have you seen Robert's click? It's tiny!
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A computer user who has no idea what they are doing randomly clicks around hoping the solution will magically appear.
A Geek Squad technician came out to fix my computer today. I watched him cowboy click for about an hour. Afterwards, he told me the solution was to buy a new computer.
Much like a black hole, but for the Internet. One click leads you to the next which leads you to the next which leads into the next. And the next thing you know, eight hours has passed and you don't exactly know how you got where you are.
I got stuck in a click hole last night of endless puppy videos online. I'm buying a pomsky today.
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A video that has become the national pastime of South Korea. See Starcraft II.
Jim: What are all those Korans doing at night that forces them to sleep through all their lectures?
Tyrone: Gook click.
Jim: What?
Tyrone: Starcraft 2
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