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• 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....
• fireworks mode: n. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a {crash and burn} operation.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• blow out: [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] vi.
  Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as {crash and burn}....
• 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...
• die horribly v. The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of
• fall over: [IBM] vi. Yet another synonym for {crash} or {lose}.
  `Fall over hard' equates to {crash and burn}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• fireworks mode n. 1. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of this term in the Amiga community....
• CRB: CRash and Bu
• ICB: Interrupt, Crash and Bu