[acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which
are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to
benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful
constructions such as wrestling with a wombat. See also {crawling
horror}, {SMOP}. Also note the rather different usage as a
metasyntactic variable in {Commonwealth Hackish}.
Users of the {PDP-11} database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat
as their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to "HELP
WOMBAT" with factual information about Real World wombats.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {crawling horror}{uninteresting}]