borkage

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Definition of borkage

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A failure or breakdown.
    “It is just a simple borkage. It be a mean thing. But it could not be stated that the program failure was of extremely high importance, not – it was just a typical accident, and some of them occurs from time to time in the Dream System Centre.”
    “Sadly, 2018 was not done with the devices and further borkages followed later in the year.”
    “Stop yawning at the back, this stuff may not be fancy new iPhones or sweet silicon stuff, but it's good for code-wrangling developers struggling to spot borkages in their work.”
    “The issue follows a string of public cloud outages; a reminder that even the best resourced IaaS companies are not immune to development and infrastructure borkage.”

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Etymology

From bork + -age.

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