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Definition of a showstopper

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Other terms relating to 'computer slang':

Definitions include: to surf the World Wide Web looking for references to one's name, via search engines.
Definitions include: acronym for "hope this helps".
Definitions include: colloquial pronunciation of fool.
Definitions include: "credibility".
Definitions include: acronym for "no good".
Definitions include: acronym for "age, sex, location."
Definitions include: acronym for "you're welcome".
Definitions include: to test something before it is released or presented.
Definitions include: acronym for "I miss you so fucking much."
Definitions include: software that does bad things.
Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
Definitions include: acronym for "in my opinion".
Definitions include: "computer."
Definitions include: in the user interface of a software product (including websites,) something that displays the locations that the user has recently viewed or visited.
Definitions include: "later".

Other terms relating to 'to break, ruin, destroy':

Definitions include: to steal.
Definitions include: to wreck a vehicle such that repairs would cost more than the value of the (unwrecked) vehicle.
Definitions include: to mess up.
Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool".
Definitions include: to injure or destroy.
Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs.
Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
Definitions include: in an update or sequel to a video game, to make a weapon weak or weaker, such that it's like a Nerf gun.
Definitions include: to have sex.
Definitions include: to break, to fail.
Definitions include: very cold.
Definitions include: to break, to fail.
Definitions include: to lie to.
Definitions include: to overwhelm a web site with massive amounts of traffic due to Slashdot linking to it.
Definitions include: to vomit.

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Definitions include: to masturbate.
Definitions include: hard knock out
Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury.
Definitions include: A black person
Definitions include: used to express the desire to end a conversation.
Definitions include: 'Maa-veh' is Mirpuri/Pothwari code-word for 'Police'. This word is used by the British Pakistani thugs/road-manz/cuzzy bros whenever they try to warn a fellow cuzzy bro about the police. Instead of shouting out 'Police!' they will shout out 'Maaveh!'
Definitions include: very easy to do.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: to look for hidden subtext.
Definitions include: a promiscuous person, usually female.

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