"red ring" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: red rings [present, singular, third-person], red ringing [participle, present], red ringed [participle, past], red ringed [past]
Etymology: From red ring of death. Etymology templates: {{m|en|red ring of death}} red ring of death Head templates: {{en-verb}} red ring (third-person singular simple present red rings, present participle red ringing, simple past and past participle red ringed)
  1. (video games, of an Xbox 360 games console) To suffer a general hardware fault, the red ring of death. Categories (topical): Microsoft, Video games

Inflected forms

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