weeds : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: weeds	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for weeds
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weeds n a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning Synonym(s): weeds, widow's weeds
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
weeds n. 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 IBM's {branch to Fishkill} and mainstream hackerdom's {jump off into never-never land}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
weeds 1. Refers to development projects or {algorithm}s 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 {IBM}'s {branch to Fishkill} and mainstream hackerdom's {jump off into never-never land}. [{Jargon File}]