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• blow out vi. [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] Of software, to fail spectacularly
  almost as serious as crash and burn. See...
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....
• blow past: vt. To {blow out} despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• blow up: vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
  Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}....
• 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)....
• die horribly: v. The software equivalent of {crash and burn}, and the preferred emphatic form of {die}.
  The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly". -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• crash and burn: vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare {die horribly}).
  Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are notable crash and burn generators....
• die horribly v. The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of
• die: v. Syn. {crash}. Unlike {crash}, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.
  See also {go flatline}, {casters-up mode}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...