crash
:crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the
system
(q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term
originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk
collapses). "Three luser
lost their files in last night's disk
crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto
the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred
to as a `head crash', whereas the term `system crash' usually, though
not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at
fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?" "Something
crashed the OS!" See down
Also used transitively to indicate the
cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those
idiots playing SPACEWAR
crashed the system." 3. vi. Sometimes said of
people hitting the sack after a long hacking run
; see gronk out
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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