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. 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 technical detail as
effectively as by an actual excess of it.
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