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bomb
1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a
noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. Don't run Empire with less than
32K stack, it'll. 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix
panic or Amiga guru meditation , in which icons of little black-powders or
mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the
Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal)
number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation
number. MS-DOS machines tend to get locked up in this situation.