no-op
no-op
2. A person who contributes nothing to a project, or hasnothing going on upstairs, or both. As in "He's a no-op."
3. Any operation or sequence of operations with no effect,such as circling the block without finding a parking space, orputting money into a vending machine and having it fallimmediately into the coin-return box, or asking someone forhelp and being told to go away. "Oh, well, that was a no-op."Hot-and-sour soup that is insufficiently either is "no-opsoup"; so is wonton soup if everybody else is havinghot-and-sour.