defined as
= D =
dehose
deflicted
[portmanteau of "defective" and "afflicted";
common among PC repair technicians, and probably originated among
hardware techs outside the hacker community proper] Term used of
hardware that is broken due to poor design or shoddy manufacturing
or (especially) both; less frequently used of software and rarely
of people. This term is normally employed in a tone of weary
contempt by technicians who have seen the specific failure in the
trouble report before and are cynically confident they'll see it
again.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.