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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of ?Honeywell Brain Damage? (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {Multics }] adj. Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident. ?Only six monocase characters per file name? Now that's brain-damaged!? 2. [esp. in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the product it is intended to sell. Syn. crippleware.