Video gamers who continually restart to succeed at a level, battle, or match to avoid a losing record, or to continue ones turn without passing the controller to the next gamer in line.
Dude, what the hell? It's my turn!!!

Whatever dude, that was a winners restart. I'm just about to beat this level.
by Oso D'lyshus February 27, 2008
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Term used for when Windows asks if you want to restart now or later, and you choose later. Also fair warning when online that you might restart any minute. Its the same as holding in a shit in that eventually, you have to do it. Thus, "holding in a restart".
Bob: Ey, just to let you know I'm holding in a restart.
Steve: Gotcha.
by Moondoggy October 26, 2006
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PC term: When you restart your pc and it goes full retard and takes forever to load due to updates.
- I'm going to restart my pc but it might take some time for me to be back.
- why is that?
- restart retard ....
by A_E_M July 16, 2015
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When your electronic device is seriously malfunctioning and you have no other choice but rip out the power cord and or battery to give it a "fresh start".
-"ah Gavin, mycomputer is blue screening"

-"ok ross, you know what to do....rip that power cord out and give it a Japanese Restart".
by JapStart November 23, 2018
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the restart elite is an elite that exists only in halo: reach. it is an elite that does not wear any armor and is armed with only a combat knife, is invincible and can kill you in one stab and makes you restart the entire campaign(hence the name restart elite) you can usually tell that he is making an attack by the disturbed song indestructable before he enters the game. his appearances are extremely rare. also, he deranks you to recruit and takes away your armor and credits.
the restart elite will kill everything you love, give you HIV, tell your grandmother dead baby jokes until she has a stroke and throw your cat at a ceiling fan
by jorjor218 June 26, 2011
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where you sign out and back in instead of restarting the computer as a faster but less effective solution to bugs and whatnot
"i just soft restarted my computer. It fixed the problem I had with Fallout New Vegas"
by mantis_shrimp January 10, 2019
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An action whereby a player immediately restarts a game after dying.
He died on level 1 in pacman, so he pulled a rage restart so he could start again with all his lives back.
by Lambroast June 14, 2013
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