borked
Completely stopped working
Borked means broken, ruined, or rendered nonfunctional—typically describing technology that has failed or been misconfigured: The update completely borked my system.
The word derives from Robert Bork, whose 1987 Supreme Court nomination was defeated after intense opposition, giving rise to "bork" as a verb meaning to obstruct or destroy.
The tech sense emerged later, probably influenced by the similar sound of "broken."
Apprehended or broken
- kaputSlang for ruined
- friedCooked in hot fat
- brickedMade permanently nonfunctional
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
dead · shot · hosed · totaled · wrecked · ruined · destroyed · trashed
Establishing something as true
- nominationFormal candidate selection
- SenateLegislative body, often bicameral's elder
- rejectedRefused or turned away
- supreme courtApex of judicial hierarchy
filibuster · vetting · derailed · torpedoed · blocked · stonewalled · sabotaged · tanked
busted
Apprehended or broken
toast · dead · shot · hosed · totaled · wrecked · ruined · destroyed · trashed · screwed
confirmation
Establishing something as true
- nominationFormal candidate selection
- SenateLegislative body, often bicameral's elder
- rejectedRefused or turned away
supreme court · filibuster · vetting · derailed · torpedoed · blocked · stonewalled · sabotaged · tanked · sunk
buggy
Horse-drawn cart
flaky · unstable · corrupted · frozen · hung · unresponsive · crashing · freezing · glitching · erroring
bungled
Performed ineptly, failed
- fumbledHandled awkwardly, dropped
- screwed upMade errors badly
- messed upDisordered or badly handled
fouled up · mucked up · flubbed · mangled · butchered · hacked · bodged · kludged · jury-rigged · cobbled
- dev culturedebug, bug, code review, pull request, git
- botchedbotched, bungled, messed up, screwed up, fouled up
borkedworking
In active function
functional · operational · fixed · functioning · running