definition war

a phenomenon on Urban Dictionary wherein many people define the same word/phrase simply for the purpose of expressing their opinion on said word/phrase.

Some examples of this include Hot Topic, Goth, Gay, and Emo.

You see all those entries for Hot Topic? It's a full-blown definition war going on.

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spinning beach ball of death

The Apple equivalent of the blue screen of death (Windows). The cursor changes from an arrow into the aforementioned symbol

It's appearance signals the imminent freezing of one or more programs. Typically thwarted by force-quitting the program, or in more severe cases, shutting down the computer.

Crap, there was too much to load on that girl's MySpace; I got the spinning beach ball of death.

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