
toast
n 1: slices of bread that have been toasted
2: a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention; "he was
the toast of the town"
3: a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner
if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"
[syn: {goner}]
4: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
[syn: {pledge}]
v 1: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp
potatoes" [syn: {crisp}]
2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
"Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: {drink}, {pledge}, {salute},
{wassail}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
toast 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one
that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board
is toast." (This sense went mainstream around 1993.) 2. vt. To cause a
system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires
manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the {firewall machine} again."
Compare {fried}.
Source: The Jargon File