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2 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hairball n 1: a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur [syn: {hair ball}] 2: a compact mass of hair in the stomach of an animal formed as a result of licking fur [syn: {hair ball}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: hairball n. 1. [Fidonet] A large batch of messages that a store-and-forward network is failing to forward when it should Often used in the phrase "Fido coughed up a hairball today", meaning that the stuck messages have just come unstuck, producing a flood of mail where there had previously been drought. 2. An unmanageably huge mass of source code. "JWZ thought the Mozilla effort bogged down because the code was a huge hairball." 3. Any large amount of garbage coming out suddenly. "Sendmail is coughing up a hairball, so expect some slowness accessing the Internet."
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