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1.		weeds - 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.		weeds - 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.

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No references found			A FARMER being about to die, and knowing that during his illness his Sons had permitted the vineyard to become overgrown with weeds while they improved the shining hour by gambling with the doctor, said to them: Fables by Aesop View in context So when the Old Man was dead each of the youths put a weed upon his hat and wore it until he was himself old, when, seeing that neither would give in, they agreed that the younger should leave off his weeds and the elder give him half of the estate. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context There reigns a heavy silence; gaunt weeds through windows pry, And down the streets of Liang old echoes, wailing, die. A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context			wedge core lifter wedge filter wedge photometer wedge product wedge reaming bit wedge spectrograph wedge-base lamp wedge-tailed eagle wedged wedgie wedging wedging bit wedgitude Wedgwood Wedgwood ware Wedgwood, Josiah Wednesday Wednesday's Weeble Weed weed killer Weed, Thurlow Weeden, Donald Edward Weeding weedkiller weeds weedy Weegee Weehawken Week Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories weekday Weeks, Feast of Weelkes Weelkes, Thomas Weems, Mason Locke Weems, Ted weenie Weenix Weenix, Jan Baptist weep hole weep hole tile weepers Weeping weeping core weeping cross weeping spring weeping willow weepy Weerth, Georg			weedily weediness weediness weeding weeding weeding weeding Weeding chisel Weeding forceps Weeding fork Weeding hook Weeding iron weeding out weeding out weeding out weeding out Weeding tongs Weeding-rhim weedkiller weedkiller weedkiller weedkillers weedkillers weedkillers weedless weedless weedless weedless Weedon Classic Car Club Weedon Repair Standard weeds Weeds of National Significance weeds out weeds out weeds out weeds out weedy weedy Weedy evening primrose Weedy evening-primrose WEEE WEEED WEEEP WEEF Weegee WEEH Weehawken Weehawken Free Public Library Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad Weehawken, New Jersey Weeing Weeing Weeing week week week week week week after week week after week Week Beginning

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