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hug of death

noun

Definitions

  1. An extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hug, of, death.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hug of death. 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