Definition of three-finger salute
three-finger salute 
noun
- the pressing of the "Alt" key + the "Ctrl" key + the "Del" key to reboot or unfreeze a PC computer.
Citation from "Operating in a New Environment", PC Magazine, Charles Petzold, February 25 1986 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Jun 14 2010. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
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- Scouting organizations such as the Girl Scouts also use a "three-finger salute", though it's obviously much different.
Last edited on Jun 19 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 19 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: to terminate an account because the account-holder violated the Terms of Service. | |
| Definitions include: a set of information services available to subscribers only. | |
| Definitions include: pejorative name for Microsoft Windows. | |
| Definitions include: to hack, with the result being something quickly and sloppily created, or modified to solve a particular problem. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "age, sex, location." | |
| Definitions include: spelling variant of "hacker". | |
| Definitions include: "please". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "licking my lips". | |
| Definitions include: a computer program that single-handedly or near single-handedly makes a computing platform popular. | |
| Definitions include: to test something before it is released or presented. | |
| Definitions include: From the carnival / arcade game that involves hitting mechanical moles with a mallet as they pop up from their holes. | |
| Definitions include: an attractive person. | |
| Definitions include: software that does bad things. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is famous due to their world-wide web presence. | |
| Definitions include: on a social networking website, to remove someone from one's list of friends. | |
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Other terms relating to 'finger': | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: a physical gesture one performs for good luck. | |
| Definitions include: To accidentally press an adjacent button, e.g. while typing on a keyboard or entering a phone number. | |
| Definitions include: to look up someone on the internet. | |
| Definitions include: to insert fingers into a person's vagina. | |
| Definitions include: to stimulate the female genitals with one's fingers. | |
| Definitions include: extremely tasty. | |
| Definitions include: to express that one is literally or figuratively crossing their fingers in order to bring about good luck. | |
| Definitions include: stolen, lifted, heisted, boosted, shoplifted. | |
| Definitions include: a pretend occurrence during which stealing is permitted. | |
| Definitions include: to steal. | |
| Definitions include: to raise only the middle finger in someone's direction. | |
| Definitions include: to be a thief. | |
| Definitions include: to expend effort. | |
| Definitions include: a person who masturbates excessively. | |
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Other terms relating to 'three': | |
| Definitions include: the ability to think outside the box. | |
| Definitions include: a man with an extremely large penis. | |
| Definitions include: a chaotic event. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: an unspecified small number. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: be something really big and bad. | |
| Definitions include: to split something (often a purchase) three ways. | |
| Definitions include: to focus on beer, "bud" (marijuana), and "bitches" (women.) | |
| Definitions include: a premature ejaculator. | |
| Definitions include: something chaotic and disorderly. | |
| Definitions include: reading, writing, and arithmetic. | |
| Definitions include: very drunk. | |
| Definitions include: a threesome, i.e. sex between three people. | |
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