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hardlock

noun

Etymology

From hard + lock.

  1. inherited from *lūkaną✻
  2. inherited from *lūkan✻
  3. inherited from lūcan
  4. inherited from locken
  5. derived from *lewg-✻
  6. inherited from *luką✻
  7. inherited from *lok✻
  8. inherited from loc
  9. inherited from lok
  10. compounded as hardlock — “hard + lock”

Definitions

  1. A situation where a game becomes unplayable or unresponsive due to a glitch, making…

    A situation where a game becomes unplayable or unresponsive due to a glitch, making further progress or action impossible.

  2. To be in or cause a hardlock.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hardlock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA