May 15, 2003

toast

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:26 AM

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