May 15, 2003

lossage

/los'@j/ n.

[very common] The result of a bug or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. What a loss! and What lossage! are nearly synonymous. The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances; the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:40 AM

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