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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
MEGO \MEGO\, n. [My eyes glaze over.]
   A very dull article, speech, or book, which causes the reader
   or listener to rapidly lose interest; -- often used of
   involved discussions of a technical nature, especially in
   newspapers. [Acronym, Slang]
   [PJC]

2. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
MEGO
 /me'goh/, /mee?goh/

    [?My Eyes Glaze Over?, often ?Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over?, attributed to
    the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also MEGO factor.

    1. n. A handwave intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce
    agreement because the listener does not want to admit to not understanding
    what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by
    engineers and contains a high proportion of TLAs.

    2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics.

    3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behavior that causes the eyes to
    glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be triggered by
    the mere threat of excessive technical detail as effectively as by an
    actual excess of it.


3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
MEGO

   /me"goh/ or /mee'goh/ ["My Eyes Glaze Over", often "Mine Eyes
   Glazeth (sic) Over", attributed to the futurologist Herman
   Kahn] Also "MEGO factor".  1.  A handwave intended to
   confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because
   the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what
   is going on.  MEGO is usually directed at senior management by
   engineers and contains a high proportion of TLAs.
   2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics.  3. Among
   non-hackers, often refers not to behaviour that causes the
   eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which
   may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as
   effectively as by an actual excess of it.


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