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.
(1995-05-01)
Nearby terms:
TNXE6 « to « to a first approximation « toast
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