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• fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• let the smoke out v. To fry hardware (see fried).
  See magic smoke for a discussion of the underlying mythology....
• fried adj. 1. [common] Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event....
• fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....
• oach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
  Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• moke vi. 1. To crash or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colorful)....
• oach vt. [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
  Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached....
• dead adj. 1. Non-functional; down; crashed. Especially used of hardware.
  2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support....
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....