- A term used to describe a series of tasks that are necessary to solve a problem, but that are not directly related to the problem itself. Yak shaving is believed to have originated from an episode of Ren & Stimpy, an animated comedy show. The concept is to begin with a simple task, which leads to another task, and so on, until one is “shaving a yak” to solve the original problem.
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