1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be USed for demonstration purposes as long as the operator USes *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numeroUS bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the USer for enticement purposes. See crippleware. (1994-11-04)