click of death

English

Etymology

Coined in the 1990s with reference to Zip drives.

Noun

click of death (plural clicks of death)

  1. (computing, informal) A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.
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