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

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.

spinning beach ball of death by Sybet January 8, 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?

Spinning Beach Ball of Death by fakename06 December 28, 2018

Beachball of Death 

The Mac OS pointer icon of a colorful spinning wheel indicating the program currently under the mouse pointer is no longer responding. Called the beachball of death if the program never recovers or causes the operating system to become so busy (usually due to insufficient memory) that nothing else responds.

I ran a new shareware program, but killed it after I got the beachball of death.

Beachball of Death by esmith512 January 8, 2008