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hugs of death

hugs of death is the plural of hug of death.

Meaning of hug of death

Noun

hug of death (plural hugs of death)

  1. (Internet) An extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service.
    • But the law of trespass to chattels embeds good intuitions about balancing one person's ownership with another's casual interaction. It is fine if you pet my dog, just don't pet him so much that his hair falls off! It's fine if you link my content, just don't give my server the Internet hug of...2021 February 25, Joshua A. T. Fairfield, Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 59
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hug, of, death.

Questions about hugs of death

What is hugs of death the plural of?
Hugs of death is the plural of hug of death.

Words near hugs of death in the dictionary

  1. Hugpa East
  2. Hugpa West
  3. hugs
  4. hugs and kisses
  5. hugs it out
  6. hugs of death
  7. hugs oneself
  8. hugsome
  9. Huguan
  10. Huguang
  11. Huguely

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