leak: n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management
bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after
operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak
out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests
come in. memory leak and fd leak have their own entries; one
might also refer, to, say, a `window handle leak' in a window system.
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