toast

<jargon>

1. Any completely inoperable system or component, especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast."

2. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again."

Compare fried.

Last updated: 1995-05-01

Nearby terms:

to ♦ to a first approximation ♦ toast ♦ toaster ♦ toasternet ♦ to a zeroth approximation

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