Usually means: System crash displaying blue error screen.
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  1. Bluescreen, bluescreen: Wordnik
  2. bluescreen: Wiktionary
  3. Bluescreen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Bluescreen: Encyclopedia

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  1. bluescreen: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (intransitive, computing) To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
verb:  (informal, by analogy) To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.
noun:  Alternative form of blue screen [(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.]

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