squirrelcide

English

Etymology

From squirrel +‎ -cide.

Noun

squirrelcide (usually uncountable, plural squirrelcides)

1. (very rare) Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.
   • 1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional:

     After the second squirrelcide (which downed my laboratory's primary computer system for 4 days), SRI established a cogeneration plant that was supposed to guarantee uninterruptible power, with appropriate isolation between the standby generators and the local power utility.

   • 2004, Peter G. Neumann, Principled Assuredly Trustworthy Composable Architectures‎^[1]:

     each of those assumptions can be vitiated by a wide variety of circumstances -- including insider misuse, penetrations that exploit design flaws and code bugs, and other forms of subversion, as well as nontolerated failures in hardware and software, power failures, interference, acts of God, and squirrelcides.

   • 2011, Gitty Daneshvari, “School of Fear 3: The Final Exam”, in Inc., Hachette Digital:

     Did I mention I volunteer at a squirrel-cide hotline? I talk suicidal squirrels off the ledge.

Hypernyms

• sciuricide