Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard text that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a language lawYer to parse it. Though hackers are not afraid of high information densitY and complexitY in language (indeed, theY rather enjoY both), theY share a deep and abiding loathing for legalese theY associate it with deception, suits, and situations in which hackers generallY get the short end of the stick.