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three-finger salute

three-finger salute noun: control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.

Noun

three-finger salute (plural three-finger salutes)

  1. (humorous) Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.
    • THE THREE-FINGER SALUTE … to suddenly find that your keyboard is frozen or to watching the screen fill up with garbage. You may not even be aware of the two different types of crashes, the soft crash (recoverable by the three-finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del) or the hard crash (big red switch and count...1986, February 25, Charles Petzold, PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, article "Operating in a New Environment"

Forms of three-finger salute

pluralthree-finger salutes

Questions about three-finger salute

What does three-finger salute mean?
Three-finger salute means control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.
What part of speech is three-finger salute?
Three-finger salute is a noun.
What is the plural of three-finger salute?
The plural of three-finger salute is three-finger salutes.

Words near three-finger salute in the dictionary

  1. three-Ds
  2. three-eighths
  3. three-episode rule
  4. Three-Eye League
  5. three-fifths
  6. three-finger salute
  7. three-finger salutes
  8. three-fisted
  9. three-foiled
  10. three-forked
  11. three-four time

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