crash

crash  1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure.  Most often
   said of the {system} (q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk
   drives (the term originally described what happened when the air
   gap of a hard disk collapses).  "Three {luser}s 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. v. 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." 3. vi.  Sometimes said of people hitting the
   sack after a long {hacking run}; see {gronk out}.