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feature creature n.

[poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a horror movie] 1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or [taste]. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also [feeping creaturism], [creeping featurism].