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decomp

decomp noun: decomposition.

Noun (1)

decomp (plural decomps)

  1. (slang) Decomposition.
    • There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.
  2. (slang) A decomposed body.
    • "It's a decomp. There's gonna be maggots, and that means I'm gonna have nightmares."2007, John Leake, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer
    • "It helped ventilate the place, especially when he had a decomp case. The coroner's offices were pitifully outdated."2007, John Luciew, Fatal Dead Lines

Verb (1)

decomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

  1. (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To decompose.

Verb (2)

decomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

  1. (slang, transitive, hacking) To decompile (especially a video game).
    • If you want to decomp my sweater — Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code2021, Kyle Orland, "Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code", Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2022-03-17 (context: subtitle and title, here used in jest saying...

Noun (2)

decomp (plural decomps)

  1. (slang, hacking) A decompilation (especially of a video game).
  2. (plural, plural-only, slang, hacking) The results of a decompilation (especially of a video game).

Forms of decomp

Noun
pluraldecomps
Verb
third-person singular presentdecomps
present participledecomping
past participledecomped
pastdecomped

Origin of decomp

Shortening of decomposition or decomposed.

Shortening of decompile and decompilation.

Questions about decomp

What does decomp mean?
Decomp means decomposition.
What part of speech is decomp?
Decomp can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of decomp?
The plural of decomp is decomps.

Words near decomp in the dictionary

  1. decommunization
  2. decommunize
  3. decommunized
  4. decommunizes
  5. decommunizing
  6. decomp
  7. decompact
  8. decompacted
  9. decompactification
  10. decompactifications
  11. decompactified

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