Usually means: Unnecessary tasks delaying actual work.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (yak shaving)

noun:  Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing one to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows one to solve a larger problem.
noun:  A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.

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