decomp
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of decomposition or decomposed.
Noun
decomp (plural decomps)
- (law enforcement, slang) Decomposition.
- There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.
- (law enforcement, slang) A decomposed body.
- 2007, John Leake, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer:
- "It's a decomp. There's gonna be maggots, and that means I'm gonna have nightmares."
Etymology 2
Shortening of decompile and decompilation.
Verb
decomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)
- (transitive, slang, hacking) to decompile (especially videogames)
- 2021, 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 the hackers are so good they could decompile a sweater)
- If you want to decomp my sweater — Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code
- 2021, 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 the hackers are so good they could decompile a sweater)
Noun
decomp (plural decomps)
- (slang, hacking) a decompilation (especially of a videogame)
- (slang, hacking, plural only) results of a decompilation (especially of a videogame)
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