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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
toast
1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned: Uh, oh. .. I think the serial board is. (This sense went mainstream around 1993.) 2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. Rick just ed the firewall machine again. Compare fried.