lint: [from Unix's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it
supposedly picks from programs] 1. vt. To examine a program closely
for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp. if in C,
esp. if via use of automated analysis tools, most esp. if the Unix
utility `lint(1)' is used. This term used to be restricted to use
of `lint(1)' itself, but (judging by references on Usenet) it has
become a shorthand for desk check at some non-Unix shops, even in
languages other than C. Also as v. delint. 2. n. Excess verbiage
in a document, as in "This draft has too much lint".
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