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Interesting -- as a UK native, I don't recognise that. Maybe it's limited to certain regions/subcultures/???

The word was definitely used (and was understood to be offensive) when I was growing up - in Worcestershire in the 90s. I wonder if it's fallen out of use since then.

I'm assuming it was meant as a shortening of "spastic"? In which case the version I'm familiar with would be "spaz", though it must be years -- probably decades -- since I've run across it.

I'm from the midlands and live in Yorkshire. It is recognised by people in both places. Odd.

I came across "spack"[1], another unfortunately named repo recently as well.

Another good one is "nonce" - seen frequently in oauth and crypto - always gets a laugh out of the juniors.

[1] https://github.com/spack/spack

It’s not in particularly common usage anymore though, if at all.

Wow never heard of this and I lived in the UK for an extended period of time. Thanks for the info.

Wow, I had no idea - thanks for the heads up