How to pronounce “bikeshedding”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
• Procrastination.
• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of bikeshed

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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