"hug of death" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hugs of death [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|hugs of death}} hug of death (plural hugs of death)
  1. (Internet) A metaphorical hug given by an extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-hug_of_death-en-noun-3QvgBFET Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hug, of, death.
    Sense id: en-hug_of_death-en-noun-gADLd-cK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: screen of death

Inflected forms

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