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Scroughskrawg
v. To mindlessly perform a tedious task that nobody will ever notice, required by a bureaucracy that nobody fully owns, in pursuit of outcomes that nobody really wants.
Etymology
From scrow, to work hard + scroff, useless bits of leftover material + cog, a tiny forgettable element in a complicated machine.
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