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RROD

RROD is the initialism of red ring of death.

Meaning of red ring of death

Noun

red ring of death (plural red rings of death)

  1. A fatal hardware exception in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console characterised by three or four red indicator LEDs around the power button.
    Synonyms:
    RRoD

Noun capitalized: RRoD

RRoD (plural RRoDs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of red ring of death.
    • If you no longer have a warranty on your Xbox, and you've gotten the dreaded Red Ring of Death ... there's still hope. The RRoD is displayed by the 360's "Ring of Light" when there's a general hardware failure.2008, Jake "Biggs" Turner, “Fix the Red Ring of Death! (without towels!)”, in The Best of Instructables, volume 1, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 247
    • After a great deal of pressure, Microsoft tacitly recognized the RRoD epidemic, and announced extended warranty support that would cost the company more than one-billion dollars.2011 October 25, Gerry Block, “Xbox 360 RRoD Failures Finally Explained”, in IGN

Forms of RROD

pluralRRODs
pluralRRoDs

Questions about RROD

What is RROD the initialism of?
RROD is the initialism of red ring of death.
What part of speech is RROD?
RROD is a noun.
What is the plural of RROD?
The plural of RROD is RRODs.

Words near RROD in the dictionary

  1. RRFB
  2. RRFBs
  3. rrhoids
  4. rrna
  5. rrnas
  6. RROD
  7. RRODs
  8. rrp
  9. rrps
  10. RRR
  11. RRRs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RROD (page history and authors); RRoD (page history and authors); red ring 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.

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