Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

squirrelcide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: squir-rel-cide
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From squirrel + -cide.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: squirrel

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

squirrelcides (plural)

Questions

What does squirrelcide mean?: Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.
Where does squirrelcide come from?: From squirrel + -cide.

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