[WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program that is very difficult to USe becaUSe of gratuitoUSly poor design decisions. Opposite: cUSpy. 2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other USers in such a way as to caUSe a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare all-elbows. [Jargon File] (1994-10-27)