crash

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Definition

When your computer decides to ghost you at the worst possible moment, or when the stock market remembers gravity and plummets back to earth. Either way, everything you didn't save is now a metaphorical ghost.

Example: The system crash wiped out three hours of work.

Example Usage

The system crash wiped out three hours of work.

Source: Computing and finance terminology

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