mungedadj.
/mʌn(d)ʒd/, /mʌŋd/, U.S. /mən(d)ʒd/, /məŋd/ slang (originally U.S.). Chiefly Computing.
That has been spoiled, corrupted or ruined. Also with up.
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1987 Byte (Nexis) May 325 You might have a subtly munged file somewhere.
1993 J. Agee Strange Angels xiv. 198 My back's been munged up all week.
1997 InfoWorld (Electronic ed.) 24 Feb. [Users] cannot afford to have a document that is unreadable or badly ‘munged’ when it arrives on the other end.
2000 Personal Computer World Mar. 245/3 It wasn't hard to reinstate the odd munged config file by hand.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1987- to the etc order
- to the etc utterance
- to the exclusion of
- to the extent of
- to the extreme
- to the eyeballs
- to the eyebrows
- to the eyewards
- to the feel
- to the fieldward
- to the first order
- to the fore
- to the fore with
- to the fraud of
- to the front
- to the front of
- to the full
- to the full extent of
- to the gills
- to the gold-gold-weights
- to the gold-weight
- to the goldgoldweights
- to the goldweight
- to the good
- to the grave