Smiley fail

When you save a smiley on MSN Messenger or other and it pops up without it being your intention and ruins your message.

Henrik: The other day my aunt asked me on MSN what she should get me for christmas. I wrote that I had not thought of anything special. When I looked up from my keyboard the P in special had been replaced by a penis.

Eirik: Ooh. thats an Epic Smiley Fail. What did she say?

Henrik: She pretended like nothing, but it kind of ended the whole conversation though....

Eirik: Obviously... And it probably decreased the value of your christmas present by 50%...

Henrik: Damn Msn.

by Mr Ragga N`Chips November 24, 2009

Foster fail

Someone who fosters an animal just until it can be adopted but ends up adopting it themselves

"I fostered this cat but fell in love with her and ended up adopting her myself. I'm such a foster fail!"

by tickler0001 September 25, 2020

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

by Atratus August 7, 2006

made of fail

Lacking in coolness. Bad at something. Used as a descriptive term when either seriously or jokingly telling someone that they suck.

Lolcats are made of fail.

That guy stood me up. He's so made of fail.

by Bonnie B. August 20, 2007

you fail it

A term that could be used as an insult or to take the piss when someone makes a silly mistake (a bit like 'duh' or similar) or fails something (like a test or challenge).

Originates from a game called 'Blazing Star', where the game over message reads: "You fail it! Your skill is not enough, see you next time, bye-bye"

by T.U.D October 1, 2003

Raven fail

When someone who's been chatting in a chat room suddenly exits, due to hitting the exit button or similar by accident, and then enters only a few seconds after.

Originates from a time when WhiteRaven, a member at www.tuomas-holopainen.com, suddenly exited the Tuomas-chat on the page, and then entered only seconds later, several times on the same day, someday in December 2010. The term has been used by people in the chat room ever since.

Abbreviation: "Raven"

"Alex did a Raven fail, haha", "Sorry, I did a Raven" :p

by Webbah January 16, 2011

asian fail

Getting a test score below 90%.

With the possibilty of being dissowned by your asian parents.

Usually used by girls in mostly asian schools (eg: mac.rob).

1:
Girls talking:

girl 1 (asian): omg!! i got 88% on my maths test!!!

girl 2(asian): omg!! that's soo bad!!

girl 3(white): *sighs* asian fail...


2:
girl 1(asian):my mum's gonna kill - i got real shit on my test!!!

girl 2(asian): i know!! 88% is my worst score EVER!!! we've sooo failed...

by zabiiy March 4, 2009