Red Shirt Death

The term Red Shirt refers to security personnel from the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek series, sent along on Away Teams, presumably to protect the more familiar characters. Unfortunately, they usually just ended up being killed, often times off-camera, by whatever was menacing the ship and crew in that particular episode. Thus, to suffer a Red Shirt Death is to be killed quickly, pointlessly and ignonimously.

When Tasha Yar got killed by that stupid tar monster, that was a total Red Shirt Death.

by Ozzwepay May 13, 2009

red rings of death

What happens when your xbox 360 messes up
The usually green rings that surround the power button, turn red.

I was playing madden 07 on my 360, then all of a sudden my screen cut off and I saw the red rings of death, i was freaking out.

by Ima Moron September 26, 2006

Red Rings Of Death

Microsoft's way of saying, "Your 360 is offically fucked"

"Dude my 360 got the Red Rings of Death"
"Well your fucked"

by Rrod box July 1, 2008

Red ring of death

An omen of doom... it shows that your xbox360 just kicked the bucket

WTF!? Noooooooooooooooooooo, my xbox, damn you red ring of death, now I can't play fable 2.

by Jonno8825 January 1, 2009

Red Ring of Death

A form of error message on the Xbox 360. The Red Ring of Death replaces the Ring of Light, the green circle surrounded the power button. The red lights indicate a sort of error message and the number of lights and placement of them mean different things. The worst would be three lights flashing, with the top-right not illuminated. In this situation, it means the 360 is suffering hardware failure.

Comparable to the Blue Screen of Death.

Not the red ring of death! Crud, according to the online instructions I need to send my 360 in for repairs.

by Ben L. June 10, 2007

Red Screen of Death

You usually get this in playstation 2 console system, when you insert an unreadable disc in it. Usually these are pirate dvd/cd's or burned dvd/cd's. The best to prevent this, is by getting a properly installed modchip or hdloader and a harddrive with ps2 network adapter.

Shit, my burned copy of grand theft auto san andreas wont play on my ps2 because of this Red Screen Of Death... i might aswell go out and buy the game ;)

by The one named K3N October 27, 2005

Red Rings of Death

Red circle that covers 3 lights around the power button on an Xbox 360 that signifies that the system has overheated and must be shipped to Microsoft. In other words, go commit suicide.

I just pwned some guy in halo 3 and next thing I know, red rings of death

by koolaid1994 April 1, 2010