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fail whales

fail whales is the plural of fail whale.

Meaning of fail whale

Noun

fail whale (plural fail whales)

  1. (Internet) An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.

Questions about fail whales

What is fail whales the plural of?
Fail whales is the plural of fail whale.

Words near fail whales in the dictionary

  1. fail up
  2. fail up the ladder
  3. fail upward
  4. fail upwards
  5. fail whale
  6. fail whales
  7. fail'd
  8. fail-deadly
  9. fail-safe
  10. fail-safed
  11. fail-safes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fail whales (page history and authors); fail whale (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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