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bluescreens

bluescreens is the plural of bluescreen.

bluescreens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bluescreen.

Meaning of bluescreen

Verb

bluescreen (third-person singular simple present bluescreens, present participle bluescreening, simple past and past participle bluescreened)

  1. (intransitive) To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
    • His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.
  2. (informal, by analogy) To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.

Questions about bluescreens

What is bluescreens the plural of?
Bluescreens is the plural of bluescreen.

Words near bluescreens in the dictionary

  1. blueschist
  2. blueschists
  3. bluescreen
  4. bluescreened
  5. bluescreening
  6. bluescreens
  7. bluesey
  8. blueshead
  9. bluesheads
  10. blueshift
  11. blueshifted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bluescreens (page history and authors); bluescreen (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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