Meaning of blinkenlights | Babel Free

Definitions

The flashing lights on an electronic device such as a modem, router, or network hub (originally the front-panel lights on old computers).

plural, plural-only, slang

Examples

“The back of the NIRT truck was crowded with consoles and flashing panels of blinkenlights, battered laptops plastered with security inventory stickers...”

“I am talking about — of course — LED blinkenlights, the usually-blue glowing pimples that pepper routers, speakers, computers and even USB hubs.”

“Through a friend at hswaw [Warsaw Hackerspace], I have obtained a launchpad mini while working on this project (thanks drozdziak1!). ar jokingly suggested that I should velcro it to the [computer's] case and use it as blinklichter, and.. that was too good of an idea not to.”

CEFR level