Definitions
crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening
Word origin
From bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.
Used in a sentence
“Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: "Home > About Us > Staff" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.”
“If you believe the system can merrily proceed despite an assertion failure, code the exception handler to log the error, leaving debugging breadcrumbs behind, and return.”
“[…] track metrics used to improve performance, or log a series of breadcrumbs to track an application's progress, […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Tiny bit of toast”10 letters
02“Tiny piece from toast”10 letters
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