(euphemistic, humorous) An all-purpose profanity.

plural of expletive deleted

(science fiction, sometimes humorous) Said by a sentient machine to express the desire to kill or destroy something or someone.

(computing, literally) To press Ctrl, Alt, and Delete simultaneously to restart. / (figuratively) To reset.

(computing) The simultaneous key combination of Ctrl, Alt, and Delete.

simple past tense and past participle of Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of Ctrl-Alt-Delete

(databases) An operation in which data is erased from the database (as opposed to a soft deletion).

(databases) An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.

present participle of speedy delete