Squirrelcide
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it. rare, uncountable, usually
"After the second squirrelcide (which downed my laboratory's primary computer system for 4 days), SRI established a cogeneration plant that was supposed to guarantee uninterruptible power, with appropriate isolation between the standby generators and the local power utility."
Example
More examples"After the second squirrelcide (which downed my laboratory's primary computer system for 4 days), SRI established a cogeneration plant that was supposed to guarantee uninterruptible power, with appropriate isolation between the standby generators and the local power utility."
Etymology
From squirrel + -cide.
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