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squirrelcide en · NOUN

Etymology

From squirrel + -cide.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable, usually) Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.
   • Did I mention I volunteer at a squirrel-cide hotline? I talk suicidal squirrels off the ledge. 2011, Gitty Daneshvari, “School of Fear 3: The Final Exam”, in Inc., Hachette Digital:
   • 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. 1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional:
   • 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. 2004, Peter G. Neumann, Principled Assuredly Trustworthy Composable Architectures:

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Hypernyms

sciuricide