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Meaning of three-finger salute | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.

humorous

Examples

“THE THREE-FINGER SALUTE … to suddenly find that your keyboard is frozen or to watching the screen fill up with garbage. You may not even be aware of the two different types of crashes, the soft crash (recoverable by the three-finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del) or the hard crash (big red switch and count to 5 slowly).”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

three-four time three-fourths three-halfpenny three-high three-hole punch three-hundredth