bluescreen

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See also: blue screen

English

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Etymology

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From blue +‎ screen; derived from "blue screen of death".

Verb

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bluescreen (third-person singular simple present bluescreens, present participle bluescreening, simple past and past participle bluescreened)

  1. (intransitive, computing) To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
    His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.

Noun

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bluescreen (plural bluescreens)

  1. Alternative form of blue screen