Land Mine

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A hidden risk or bug waiting to be triggered by the wrong change or condition. In engineering slang, land mines are the traps you step on only after a seemingly ordinary move.

    In plain English: A hidden technical danger waiting to be triggered.

    Example: "The old feature flag was a land mine because it only activated for one enterprise tenant and immediately bypassed the new validation path."

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