walking skeleton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An emaciated person.
  2. An initial, bare-bones implementation of a system or application which provides only the basic core functionality, in order to be able to demonstrate a minimal working product to be further fleshed out later.

Word forms

walking skeleton walking skeletons
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