Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for GIGO. Search instead for NIGO.

GIGO

American  
[gahy-goh] / ˈgaɪ goʊ /

noun

Computers.

  1. a rule of thumb stating that when faulty data are fed into a computer, the information that emerges will also be faulty.

GIGO British  
/ ˈɡaɪɡəʊ /

acronym

  1. garbage in, garbage out

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of GIGO

1965–70; g(arbage) i(n) g(arbage) o(ut)

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.