English Dictionary

hug of death

名詞

インターネット

(Internet) A metaphorical hug given by an extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hug, of, death.

日本語の意味

（インターネット用語）あるサービスに対して急激なアクセス増加が生じ、その結果としてサービスが停止する現象を表す隠喩的表現。

The charity livestream experienced a hug of death when thousands of viewers tuned in at once, crashing the site.

チャリティのライブ配信は、数千人の視聴者が同時にアクセスしたことでサービスをダウンさせるほどのトラフィックの急増に見舞われ、サイトがクラッシュしました。

意味（1）

(Internet) A metaphorical hug given by an extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service.

But the law of trespass to chattels embeds good intuitions about balancing one person's ownership with another's casual interaction. It is fine if you pet my dog, just don't pet him so much that his hair falls off! It's fine if you link my content, just don't give my server the Internet hug of death.⁴²

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hug, of, death.

hugs of death （ plural ）