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feature creature: n.

[poss. fr. slang ‘creature feature’ for a horror movie]

1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or taste.

2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also feeping creaturism, creeping featurism.


 
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