info-dump
See also: infodump
English
Alternative forms
Noun
info-dump (plural info-dumps)
- (chiefly computing) A large volume of data supplied at the same time.
- 1995, Robert W Keidel, Seeing organizational patterns:
- Unfortunately, too many corporate meetings are info-dumps — convened for the sake of information exchange, which is more efficiently handled by phone or fax […]
- (literature) A long section in a work of fiction that reveals often tedious expository information through the voice of the narrator.
- Synonym: expository lump
- An act of sharing a large amount of information on a subject one is interested in, particularly as an activity by or among autistic people.
Verb
info-dump (third-person singular simple present info-dumps, present participle info-dumping, simple past and past participle info-dumped)
- (informal, slang, intransitive) To speak expositorily and at length regarding one's knowledge about a subject.
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