Code Pirate

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A joking label for someone who liberally copies code, snippets, or patterns from elsewhere with little hesitation. In engineering slang, the code pirate may be pragmatic and fast, or careless about context and licensing.

    In plain English: Someone who freely copies code from elsewhere.

    Example: "He was a shameless code pirate during prototyping, pulling examples from internal tools until the team later normalized the pieces they actually wanted to keep."

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