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red ring

red ring verb: of an Xbox 360 video game console, to experience a general hardware fault, the red ring of death.

Verb

red ring (third-person singular simple present red rings, present participle red ringing, simple past and past participle red ringed)

  1. (intransitive) Of an Xbox 360 video game console, to experience a general hardware fault, the red ring of death.
    • My 360 red ringed and I had to ship it to Texas to get it fixed.

Forms of red ring

third-person singular presentred rings
present participlered ringing
past participlered ringed
pastred ringed

Origin of red ring

From red ring of death.

Questions about red ring

What does red ring mean?
Red ring means of an Xbox 360 video game console, to experience a general hardware fault, the red ring of death.
What part of speech is red ring?
Red ring is a verb.
What is the past tense of red ring?
The past tense of red ring is red ringed.

Words near red ring in the dictionary

  1. Red Republicans
  2. red ribbon
  3. red ribbons
  4. red rice
  5. red rider
  6. red ring
  7. red ring disease
  8. red ring of death
  9. red ring skirt
  10. red ring skirts
  11. red ringed

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