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• blow out: [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] vi.
  Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as {crash and burn}....
• 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)....
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....
• 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)....
• 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 happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• die horribly v. The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of
• fall over vi. [IBM] Yet another synonym for crash or lose.
  `Fall over hard' equates to crash and burn....
• go flatline: [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi.
  also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To {die}, terminate, or fail, esp....
• well-behaved adj. 1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
  Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics....