info-dumping

English

Verb

info-dumping

1. present participle and gerund of info-dump

Noun

info-dumping (uncountable)

1. (literature) The act of presenting an info-dump.
   • 1997, “Sad/Not Sad”, in Paul Cornell, editor, Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground, Virgin Books, page 30:

     The info-dump is always a problem. Just at a basic practical level it is important that everyone addresses everyone else by name until at least the first death — in fact detective stories have as much trouble as alien planets, and there’s a very good example of (deliberate) bad info-dumping right at the start of The Real Inspector Hound where Mrs. Drudge answers the phone: ‘Hello? The drawing room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence one morning in early spring?’ […]

   • 2003 June 4, Philip MacDonald, “The Space Pirates: Space Oddity”, in Doctor Who Magazine, number Special edition #4, page 68:

     Forget the obvious villainy of metal-haired space lady Madeleine Issigri and the incessant info-dumping of the ridiculously plummy General Hermack.

   • 2004, David Murphy, “Overload”, in Lost Notes, Dublin: Aeon Press, page 43:

     They came to unwind, to debrief their minds of the endless info-dumping that bombarded them at work, at home, in the media, in the street.