red ring of death
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Etymology
Derived from blue screen of death, a type of failure on a personal computer running Microsoft Windows.
Noun
red ring of death (plural red rings of death)
- (video games) A fatal hardware exception in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console characterised by three or four red indicator LEDs around the power button.
Usage notes
Occasionally used as a verb, sometimes expressed by the initialism RRoD (e.g. "having red ringed" or "having RRoDed").
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