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deflicted
[portmanteau of "defective" and "afflicted";
common among PC repair technicians, and probably originated among
hardware techs outside the hacker community proper] Term used of
hardware that is broken due to poor design or shoddy manufacturing
or (especially) both; less frequently used of software and rarely
of people. This term is normally employed in a tone of weary
contempt by technicians who have seen the specific failure in the
trouble report before and are cynically confident they'll see it
again. Ultimately this may derive from Frank Zappa's 1974
album "Apostrophe", on which the Fur Trapper infamously rubs
his deflicted eyes...
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