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pumpkings

pumpkings is the plural of pumpking.

Meaning of pumpking

Noun

pumpking (plural pumpkings)

  1. (slang) A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes.
    • In addition, various people are pumpkings for different areas. For example, Andy Dougherty and Jarkko Hietaniemi share the Configure pumpkin, and Tom Christiansen is the documentation pumpking.1999 winter, Nathan Torkington, “Hacking the Perl Core”, in The Perl Journal, volume 4, number 4 (number 16 overall), Boston, Mass.: Readable Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

Questions about pumpkings

What is pumpkings the plural of?
Pumpkings is the plural of pumpking.

Words near pumpkings in the dictionary

  1. pumpkineer
  2. pumpkineers
  3. pumpking
  4. pumpkingill
  5. pumpkingills
  6. pumpkings
  7. pumpkinhead
  8. pumpkinheads
  9. pumpkinification
  10. pumpkinish
  11. pumpkinity

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