A unexplainable technical outage that causes end-users to despise network administrators. Typically, the term "hiccup" is used either:
to "dumb down" the explanation for the less-technically-inclined
-or-
because the network administrator hasn't a clue about what has happened and doesn't want anyone to know he can't explain the problem.
The reason you couldn't login to your computer this morning was due to a "technical hiccup" and has thus been fully digested. Thank you for your patience and have a nice day.
People who work the light-boards for shows, assemblies ect. They are often quite awesome. If you touch their board while they're not around, you might get a limb of some sort bitten off
1: Any detail an individual person cannot remember or does not wish to take into account.
2: A small detail, especially legal or related to rules, that NOBODY remembers or cares about unless they can abuse it for something.
1: That's just a technicality! -anyone on the wrong side of an argument
2: Did you hear they let that mass-murderer off on a technicality?