Munge

//mʌnd͡ʒ// verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits. informal, transitive

    "As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment."

  2. 2
    To add a spamblock to (an email address). informal, transitive

    "Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs."

  3. 3
    To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person. informal, transitive

    "It looks like this record is munged—it has this person’s birth date, but his father’s death date."

Etymology

Variant of mung; likely a misconstructed back-formation from munging, munged or munger.

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