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toxic hellstew

toxic hellstew noun: a terrible mess, or very unpleasant situation.

Noun

toxic hellstew (plural toxic hellstews)

  1. (informal) A terrible mess, or very unpleasant situation.
    • With vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed and Pileup likely to go unpatched on tens, if not hundreds of millions of Android devices, the platform is fast becoming a toxic hellstew that should send chills down the spines of IT admins.2014 April 11, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, “Android fragmentation turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023
    • To illustrate his point, he quoted the title of a recent article by ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, a self-described "big fan of Android." ¶ The article's title? "Android fragmentation turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities" – and Cook's slide of that quote added animated flames...[2014 June 2, Rik Myslewski, “Android is a BURNING 'hellstew' of malware, cackles Apple's Cook”, in The Register, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2024

Examples of toxic hellstew in a sentence

  • "Android fragmentation turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities" – and Cook's slide of that quote added animated flames to the word "hellstew."[2014 June 2, Rik Myslewski, “Android is a BURNING 'hellstew' of malware, cackles Apple's Cook”, in The Register, archived from the...
  • But the iTunes Store back-end is a toxic hellstew of unreliability.2015 July 26, Marco Arment, “Don't order the fish”, in Marco.org, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2024:
  • Toxic hellstew it may be, a new version of iTunes points at what kinds of technology are allowed to come out of Apple.2015 July 29, Robinson Meyer, “Look Closely and iTunes Somehow Becomes Even Worse”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington...

Synonyms of toxic hellstew

Forms of toxic hellstew

pluraltoxic hellstews

Origin of toxic hellstew

Briefly popularized by a 2014 ZDNET article using the term in reference to the Android ecosystem, which was then referenced by Apple CEO Tim Cook (see quotations below).

Questions about toxic hellstew

What does toxic hellstew mean?
Toxic hellstew means a terrible mess, or very unpleasant situation.
How do you use toxic hellstew in a sentence?
"Android fragmentation turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities" – and Cook's slide of that quote added animated flames to the word "hellstew."
What part of speech is toxic hellstew?
Toxic hellstew is a noun.
What is the plural of toxic hellstew?
The plural of toxic hellstew is toxic hellstews.

Words near toxic hellstew in the dictionary

  1. toxic asset
  2. toxic assets
  3. toxic debt
  4. toxic debts
  5. toxic femininity
  6. toxic hellstew
  7. toxic hellstews
  8. toxic masculinity
  9. toxic megacolon
  10. toxic megacolons
  11. toxic oil syndrome

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