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crash

1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). Three luser s lost their files in last night's disk . A disk  that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a head  , whereas the term system  usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. Has the system just ed? Something ed the OS! See down. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the  (usually a person or a program, or both). Those idiots playing SPACEWAR ed the system. 3. vi. Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a long hacking run ; see gronk out.
	`crash`

	1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). Three luser s lost their files in last night's disk . A disk that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a head , whereas the term system usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. Has the system just ed? Something ed the OS! See down. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the (usually a person or a program, or both). Those idiots playing SPACEWAR ed the system. 3. vi. Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a long hacking run ; see gronk out.