decomp

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noun

Decomposition.

“There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.”

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

decomp1

noundecomp (plural decomps)

plural decomps

  1. slanggovernmentDecomposition.

    There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.

  2. slanggovernmentA 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
    1 more example

    "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 The coroner's offices were pitifully outdated."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
verbdecomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

present singular third person decomps · participle present decomping · participle past decomped · past decomped

  1. intransitiveslanguncommongovernmentTo decompose.

decomp2

verbdecomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

present singular third person decomps · participle present decomping · participle past decomped · past decomped

  1. slangtransitivehackingTo 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 from the original on 2022-03-17 (context: subtitle and title, here used in jest saying the hackers are so good they could decompile a sweater)
noundecomp (plural decomps)

plural decomps

  1. slanghackingA decompilation (especially of a video game).
  2. pluralplural onlyslanghackingThe results of a decompilation (especially of a video game).

Origin

decomp · verb, noun

Shortening of decompile and decompilation.

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Cite this entry
APA

decomp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decomp

MLA

“decomp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decomp. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “decomp,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decomp.

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