List of things with names that, without any context, sounds quite strange.
- Baby Boom Galaxy - Starburst galaxy generating over 4,000 stars per year.
- Baby-step giant-step - Algorithm for computing the discrete logarithm.
- Ball tree - Space partitioning data structure for organizing points in a multi-dimensional space.
- Billion laughs attack - A type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack aimed at parsers of XML documents.
- Birthday problem - Probability that two people in a group have the same birthday.
- Black swan theory - Metaphor that describes an event that has a major effect and comes as a surprise.
- Broadcast storm - Accumulation of broadcast and multicast traffic on a computer network.
- Bubble sort - Simple sorting algorithm that compares and swaps adjacent elements.
- Bus factor - Minimum number of team members that can disappear from a project before it stalls.
- Butterfly effect - When a small change in a system can result in large differences.
- Cannibalize - Use a machine as a source of spare parts for another machine.
- Christmas tree packet - Network packet with every option set for the protocol in use.
- Code golf - Recreational programming competition to achieve the shortest source code of an algorithm.
- Cowboy coding - Undisciplined approach to software development.
- Curse of dimensionality - Phenomena that arise when analyzing data in high-dimensional spaces.
- Dark data - Operational data that is not being used.
- Eating your own dog food - Using own products or services for internal operations.
- Fork bomb - Denial-of-service attack where a process replicates itself to deplete available system resources.
- The Great Attractor - A gravitational anomaly tens of thousands of times more massive than the Milky Way.
- Great Pacific garbage patch A gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean.
- Heisenbug - Software bug that seems to disappear when one attempts to study it.
- Holy grail distribution - Probability distribution considered ideal for so-called "tail risk" hedging funds.
- Hype cycle - Graphical representation of the maturity, adoption and social application of technologies.
- Look-elsewhere effect - Phenomenon where a statistically significant observation have arisen by chance.
- Martian packet - IP packet with a source or destination address reserved for special-use.
- Paper street - A road or street that appears on maps but does not exist in reality.
- Rainbow table - Precomputed table for reversing cryptographic hash functions.
- Rubber duck debugging - Method of debugging code by explaining it to a rubber duck.
- Sneakernet - Transfer of electronic information by physically moving media between computers.
- Space-time crystal - Structure that repeats periodically in time and space.
- Surreal number - Natural collection of numbers including the real numbers and the infinite ordinal numbers.
- Tail risk - The financial risk of an asset moving more than 3 standard deviations from its current price.
- Tamagotchi effect - Development of emotional attachment with machines, robots or software agents.
- Taxicab geometry - Geometry that uses the Manhattan distance metric.
- Twin films - Films with very similar plot produced or released at the same time.
I used to bookmark things like this just because of the name. Please let me know if you have more examples! :)