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(jargon)toast - 1. Any completely inoperable system or component, especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast."

2. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again."

Compare fried.


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It now came to the turn of Mr Jones to give a toast, as it is called; who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed and Count Ilya Rostov became more and more moved, more glass was smashed, and the shouting grew louder.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The talk rose higher and higher, and the regimental band played between the courses, as is the immemorial custom, till all tongues ceased for a moment with the removal of the dinner-slips and the first toast of obligation, when an officer rising said, "Mr.
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