Squirrelcide

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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