blivet

Meaning

Noun

• Anything overfull.
• An item of unknown purpose, often unnecessary or useless or annoying.
• A program that has messy source code.
• An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.
• A hammer used by geologists to chop rock samples from boulders for examination.
• A hammer used by electric welders to knock slag off of the welded joint, sometimes having a spring handle to lessen shock to the hands.
• A container/tank for refrigerant gas.
• A portable, collapsible container for liquid fuel.
• An impossible trident .

Origin

• Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.