Usually means: Low-quality software, mass-produced quickly.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word shovelware:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. shovelware: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shovelware: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shovelware: The Word Spy
  4. Shovelware, shovelware: Wordnik
  5. shovelware: Wiktionary
  6. shovelware: Dictionary.com
  7. Shovelware: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Electronic Commerce Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. shovelware: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. shovelware: Netlingo
  3. shovelware: CCI Computer
  4. shovelware: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. shovelware: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shovelware)

noun:  (computing, slang, derogatory) A haphazard collection of software assembled in terms of quantity rather than quality.
noun:  (media, slang) Traditional media content, such as printed news reports, republished hastily on the Internet without considering the needs and capabilities of that medium.
noun:  (gaming, slang, derogatory) Video games of low quality

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