meaning of weeds
1. weeds 1. Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds. " 2. At CDC/ETA before its demise, the phrase "go off in the weeds" was equivalent to IBMs branch to Fishkill and mainstream hackerdoms jump off into never-never land. [Jargon File] weenie 1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less amusing version of BIFF that infests many BBSes. The typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose handle derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among sysops, "the weenie problem" refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden flamage weenies tend to spew all over a newly-discovered BBS. Compare spod, computer geek, terminal junkie. 2. Among hackers, when used with a qualifier for example, as in Unix weenie, VMS weenie, IBM weenie this can be either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person who considers him or herself to be the same sort of weenie. It implies that the weenie has put a major investment of time, effort and concentration into the area indicated; whether this is good or bad depends on the hearers judgment of how the speaker feels about that area. See also bigot. 3. The semicolon character, ";" ASCII 59.
2. a black garment dress worn by a widow as a sign of mourning
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