red ring of death
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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Xbox360-ringofdeath.jpg/220px-Xbox360-ringofdeath.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Derived from blue screen of death, a type of failure on a personal computer running Microsoft Windows.
Noun
[edit]red ring of death (plural red rings of death)
- (video games) A fatal hardware exception in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console characterised by three or four red indicator LEDs around the power button.
Usage notes
[edit]Occasionally used as a verb, sometimes expressed by the initialism RRoD (e.g. "having red ringed" or "having RRoDed").