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English
Etymology
Blend of crap + application
Pronunciation
Noun
crapplication (plural crapplications)
- (computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.
1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.
2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.