beachball

See also: beach ball

English

Etymology

From beach +‎ ball.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

beachball (plural beachballs)

1. Alternative spelling of beach ball

Verb

beachball (third-person singular simple present beachballs, present participle beachballing, simple past and past participle beachballed)

1. (computing, slang, intransitive) To hang; to stop responding to user input; (used of Mac computers, where this is indicated by a spinning coloured cursor like a beach ball).
   • 2015, Magno Urbano, Troubleshooting Xcode, Apress, →ISBN, page 54:

     Is Xcode “beachballing” forever on you when we try to open a project that was working fine the day before?

Translations

slang, Mac computing: to stop responding to user input

• Finnish: rantapalloilla, pelata rantapalloa