Meaning of squirrelcide | Babel Free

Definitions

Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.

rare, uncountable, usually

Examples

“After the second squirrelcide (which downed my laboratory's primary computer system for 4 days), SRI established a cogeneration plant⟳ that was supposed to guarantee⟳ uninterruptible power, with appropriate isolation between the standby generators and the local power utility.”

“each of those assumptions can be vitiated by a wide variety of circumstances -- including insider misuse, penetrations that exploit design⟳ flaws and code bugs, and other forms of subversion, as well as nontolerated failures in hardware and software, power failures, interference, acts of God, and squirrelcides.”

“Did I mention⟳ I volunteer⟳ at a squirrel-cide hotline? I talk⟳ suicidal squirrels off the ledge.”

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