单词 | info-dump |
释义 | info-dumpn. A large (often unwieldy or indigestible) amount of information supplied all at once, spec. as background information in a narrative. Cf. data dump n. at data n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1978 Proc. Southeastcon Region 3 Conf. 353 Would you like a hard copy info dump of the current case? 1990 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Feb. x8 Writers in my neck of the woods call this stuff ‘infodump’—putting in your research without bringing the narrative flow to a screeching halt. 1992 I. Banks Crow Road xv. 376 I'd had my own personal info-dump on the workings of the world computer network. 2004 Guardian 24 Apr. (Review section) 28/1 Occasionally the high concepts of his pieces necessitate those undigested lumps of explanation known as info-dumps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1978 |
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