There is a point in the night of drinking when you have passed the point of no return, or you have launched. After you have launched are bound to black out, be an ass, or get into a fight. If it looks like your headed in that direction you might be able to refrain from that last drink that would put you over the edge and effectively abort launch.

Kellee told me to abort launch after she witnessed me double fisting two whiskey rocks.

Eric didn't yeld to my warnings to abort launch and ended up hitting on everyone at the bar.

abort launch by Eric Hawkinson May 18, 2006

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Abort, Retry, Fail?

Abort, Retry Fail? or sometimes Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? was an error message displayed in DOS when unable to read data. The user is prompted to hit either A, R, I or F accordingly.

Abort - Aborts the operation.
Retry - Tries to read the data again.
Ignore - Hands "default data" to the application requesting the data.
Fail - Tries to continue without the data. Fail nearly always proves unsuccessful as it will result in missing data.

Retry is in most cases the only hope for success.

Data error reading Drive C:
Abort, Retry, Fail?

'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, {always} choose 'Retry.'

Bad'l Ron, Wakener
Morgan Polysoft

Abort, Retry, Fail? by Atratus August 7, 2006

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abort-o-day

a day when you get up late, waste time, and realise it's 3:30 and you're still in your PJs and it's too late to go out for "daytime" activities.

Today was an abort-o-day - exactly like yesterday, in fact.

abort-o-day by richard_geefe January 8, 2005

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