My favorite is "monkey-patch," which came from engineers incorrectly reproducing an earlier term, "guerilla patch", as "gorilla patch": https://web.archive.org/

My favorite is "monkey-patch," which came from engineers incorrectly reproducing an earlier term, "guerilla patch", as "gorilla patch": https://web.archive.org/web/20120730014107/http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/MonkeyPatch https://web.archive.org/web/20120730014107/http://wiki.zope.....