beach ball of death

The funny icon you see spin when your Mac is freezing up. Not so cute when you have to do a hard reset

Shawn was looking at way too much porn and his Macbook started with the beach ball of death

by Benji Bane February 29, 2008

spinning beach ball of death

The Apple equivalent of the blue screen of death (Windows). The cursor changes from an arrow into the aforementioned symbol

It's appearance signals the imminent freezing of one or more programs. Typically thwarted by force-quitting the program, or in more severe cases, shutting down the computer.

Crap, there was too much to load on that girl's MySpace; I got the spinning beach ball of death.

by Sybet January 07, 2007

Spinning Beach Ball of Death

The rainbow-colored beach ball/pinwheel that pops up whenever you force-close an app or your mac is slow.

Guy1: I got the spinning beach ball of death again
Guy2: So? Who cares?

by fakename06 December 29, 2018