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bike-shedding

bike-shedding is the alternative form of bikeshedding.

Meaning of bikeshedding

Noun

bikeshedding (uncountable)

  1. Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
    • Exactly. Bikeshedding the millions of possible reasons the queue/ratelimit was triggered is silly.2000 December 14, Bill Fumerola, “Re: Ratelimint Enhancement patch (Please Review One Last Time!)”, in mailing.freebsd.net (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2020, message-ID...
  2. Procrastination.

Questions about bike-shedding

What is bike-shedding the alternative form of?
Bike-shedding is the alternative form of bikeshedding.

Words near bike-shedding in the dictionary

  1. bike throws
  2. bike-and-ride
  3. bike-and-rides
  4. bike-lash
  5. bike-lashes
  6. bike-shedding
  7. bikeability
  8. bikeable
  9. bikeathon
  10. bikeathons
  11. biked

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