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blue screens of death

blue screens of death is the plural of blue screen of death.

Meaning of blue screen of death

Noun

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

  1. (informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.
    • The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.1993 October 10, tay...@saturn.brooks.af.mil, “NT Patch--doesn't fix Services for Macintosh”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet)

Questions about blue screens of death

What is blue screens of death the plural of?
Blue screens of death is the plural of blue screen of death.

Words near blue screens of death in the dictionary

  1. blue scale
  2. blue scales
  3. blue screen
  4. blue screen of death
  5. blue screens
  6. blue screens of death
  7. blue seal
  8. blue seals
  9. blue shark
  10. blue sharks
  11. blue sheep

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