nasal demon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct.

Pronunciation

En-au-nasal demon.ogg

Word forms

nasal demon nasal demons

Etymology

From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html.

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