decomp
Decomposition.
Noun government, law enforcement
- Decomposition.
- There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.
- A decomposed body.
- "It's a decomp. There's gonna be maggots, and that means I'm gonna have nightmares." - 2007, John Leake, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer:
- "It helped ventilate the place, especially when he had a decomp case. The coroner's offices were pitifully outdated." - 2007, John Luciew, Fatal Dead Lines:
Origin
Shortening of decomposition or decomposed.
Forms
Noun slang
- A decompilation (especially of a video game).
- The results of a decompilation (especially of a video game).
Origin
Shortening of decompile and decompilation.
Forms
Verb government, law enforcement
- To decompose.
Forms
Verb slang, transitive
- To decompile (especially a video game).
- If you want to decomp my sweater — Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code - 2021, Kyle Orland, "Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code", Ars Technica, archived...