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beachballing

beachballing is the present participle and gerund of beachball.

Meaning of beachball

Verb

beachball (third-person singular simple present beachballs, present participle beachballing, simple past and past participle beachballed)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To hang; to stop responding to user input.
    • Is Xcode “beachballing” forever on you when we try to open a project that was working fine the day before?2015, Magno Urbano, Troubleshooting Xcode, Apress, →ISBN, page 54

Questions about beachballing

What is beachballing the present participle and gerund of?
Beachballing is the present participle and gerund of beachball.

Words near beachballing in the dictionary

  1. Beach-la-Mar
  2. Beacham
  3. Beachams
  4. beachball
  5. beachballed
  6. beachballing
  7. beachballs
  8. beachberries
  9. beachberry
  10. beachbound
  11. beachboy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beachballing (page history and authors); beachball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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