(UK, slang, derogatory) The Daily Mail newspaper.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fail-safe

plural of fail-safe

Alternative form of feal and divot

present participle of fail-safe

simple past tense and past participle of fail-safe

(transgender) Said of a trans man, to fail to pass as a female owing to a successful female-to-male transition.

(transgender) Said of a trans woman, to fail to pass as a male owing to a successful MTF transition.

(computing) Able to proceed even after an error condition by selectively skipping parts of the processing.

(military) In nuclear weapons strategy: encouraging deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic, and overwhelming response to an attack, even if the command-and-control infrastructure has been damaged by the enemy's first strike.