Toast

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The Jargon File

Parts of this article are based on the Jargon File, v. 4.4.7,
a public domain document of hacker jargon.

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toast
Usage: n. esp. vt.

See Also: fried


toast: n. esp. vt.

  1. n.Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast." (This sense went mainstream around 1993.)
  2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again." Compare fried.
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Source: toast, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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