Word.ws English Dictionary

click of death

click of death noun: a clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.

Noun

click of death (plural clicks of death)

  1. (informal) A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.

Forms of click of death

pluralclicks of death

Origin of click of death

Coined in the 1990s with reference to Zip drives.

Questions about click of death

What does click of death mean?
Click of death means a clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.
What part of speech is click of death?
Click of death is a noun.
What is the plural of click of death?
The plural of click of death is clicks of death.

Words near click of death in the dictionary

  1. click farmers
  2. click farms
  3. click for
  4. click fraud
  5. click into gear
  6. click of death
  7. click of the fingers
  8. click off
  9. click one's fingers
  10. click one's tongue
  11. click path

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: click of death (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “click of death.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/click_of_death. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.