dev

[ dev ]

/ dɛv /

Informal.

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noun

a software developer: a game dev;a web dev.

adjective

software development: The programmers and animators on the dev team worked late into the night.

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Origin of dev

By shortening

dev.

abbreviation

development.

deviation.

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Yet, let me tell you, sir, it is not every dev—I mean it is not every gentleman who knows how to choose a philosopher.
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But an evil demon (Dev) was sent to them by Ahriman, the representative of everything noxious and sinful.
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Yas, suh, dat's my Jim; I don't know whaih he gits his dev'ment at.
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Dev— … deuce take me,4 if I did not make the mistake myself; and what is your name?
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Well, there we sit and write in our dream books, and Uncle Roger passes by and accuses us of being up to dev—to very bad mischief.
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