Usually means: Computer crash displaying blue error.
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  1. blue screen: Merriam-Webster
  2. blue screen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blue screen: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blue-screen: Wordnik
  5. blue screen: Wiktionary
  6. Blue Screen, blue-screen: Dictionary.com
  7. Blue screen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. blue screen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. blue screen: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (blue screen)

noun:  (film) The filmmaking technique of shooting foreground action against an evenly-lit monochromatic background for the purpose of removing the background from the scene and replacing it with a different image or scene.
noun:  (film) The visual effect resulting from this technique as well as the colored screen itself, especially blue.
noun:  (computing) Ellipsis of blue screen of death. [(computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.]

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