"nasal demon" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-nasal demon.ogg [Australia] Forms: nasal demons [plural]
Etymology: From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html. Head templates: {{en-noun}} nasal demon (plural nasal demons)
  1. (programming, slang, humorous, mostly plural) Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct. Tags: humorous, plural, slang Categories (topical): Programming

Inflected forms

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