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three-finger salutes

three-finger salutes is the plural of three-finger salute.

Meaning of three-finger salute

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"

Questions about three-finger salutes

What is three-finger salutes the plural of?
Three-finger salutes is the plural of three-finger salute.

Words near three-finger salutes in the dictionary

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

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