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Definition of showstopper
showstopper
noun
- a bug that makes hardware or software unusable. For example, crashing on startup. "Showstopper" bugs certainly must be fixed before a product can be released, and often need to be fixed before development can proceed.
Interestingly, in its original theatrical use, a "showstopper" is something that's amazingly good.- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
- See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.
Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: in an online community, a second account created by an account-holder. | |
| Definitions include: the internal portions of some system. | |
| Definitions include: a test of a new, repaired, or modified piece of electronic equipment whereby power is turned on, and people nearby look for smoke. | |
| Definitions include: "ta-ta for now", i.e. "goodbye for now." | |
| Definitions include: computer software that occupies too many resources due to its preponderance of features. | |
| Definitions include: a post to a discussion forum that is intended to incite flames. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "for the record". | |
| Definitions include: a person who acts like they know everything but actually knows nothing. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "in my experience". | |
| Definitions include: a tool that is very versatile but isn't easy to use. | |
| Definitions include: the general appearance of software or a website. | |
| Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs. | |
| Definitions include: to cite a relevant excerpt from some text. | |
| Definitions include: "porn", i.e. pornography. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "die in a fire". | |
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 defecate. | |
| Definitions include: a bad tantrum. | |
| Definitions include: displeasing; "uncool". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Do It Yourself." | |
| Definitions include: See girly-girl. | |
| Definitions include: a phrase used in reference to someone under the influence of opiates who keeps nodding off with their mouth open, as it resembles performing fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: "See (one) later", i.e. "Goodbye". | |
| Definitions include: to look out for a person's safety, or one's own safety. | |
| Definitions include: affectionate form of reference or address for one's significant other. | |
| Definitions include: to fight. |
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