"hit the buffers" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hit the buffers.ogg [Australia] Forms: hits the buffers [present, singular, third-person], hitting the buffers [participle, present], hit the buffers [participle, past], hit the buffers [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hit<,,hit> the buffers}} hit the buffers (third-person singular simple present hits the buffers, present participle hitting the buffers, simple past and past participle hit the buffers)
  1. (idiomatic) To stop suddenly and unexpectedly. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-hit_the_buffers-en-verb-JAAJ86yR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hit the buffers meaning in English (1.7kB)

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