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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Easter egging</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="Easter-egg.html" title="Easter egg"/><link rel="next" href="eat-flaming-death.html" title="eat flaming death"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Easter egging</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Easter-egg.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="eat-flaming-death.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Easter-egging"/><dt xmlns="" id="Easter-egging"><b>Easter egging</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at
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