crush

n 1: leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated [syn: {crushed

leather}]

2: a dense crowd of people [syn: {jam}, {press}]

3: temporary love of an adolescent [syn: {puppy love}, {calf

love}, {infatuation}]

4: the act of crushing [syn: {crunch}, {compaction}]

v 1: come down on; "The government oppresses political activists"

[syn: {oppress}, {suppress}]

2: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or

condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

[syn: {squash}, {squelch}, {mash}, {squeeze}]

3: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi

beat Becker in tennsi championship"; "We beat the

competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football

game" [syn: {beat}, {beat out}, {trounce}, {vanquish}]

4: break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"

5: crus or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: {jam}]

6: make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down

racial discrimination" [syn: {break down}]

7: become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The

plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

crash

1. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the

{system}, especially of magnetic disk drives (the term

originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard

disk collapses). "Three {lusers} lost their files in last

night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the

read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and

scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a "head

crash", whereas the term "system crash" usually, though not

always, implies that the operating system or other software

was at fault.

2. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?"

"Something crashed the OS!" See {down}. Also used

transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a

person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing

{SPACEWAR} crashed the system."

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-12-01)