Cruft
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
Old unnecessary, messy, or low-value code and artifacts that have accumulated over time. In engineering slang, cruft is the residue of many reasonable decisions that no longer add up to a clean system.
In plain English: Old messy unnecessary technical leftovers.
Example: "The cleanup removed a lot of cruft, including dead feature flags, abandoned scripts, and helper modules nobody had imported in years."