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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 wheel of death

Similar to the blue screen of death, this is when you get the spinning color wheel that never stops when a program freezes on a Mac. It's slightly less annoying than the blue screen since you can often kill the program without restarting.
guy1: "Hey I thought Mac's were reliable, what's up with this bullshit spinning wheel of death?"
guy2: "Nah, Steve Jobs is a douche too"

spinning ball of death 

the multi-colored, round, spinning icon Mac's use to indicate that a process is occuring for which the user must wait or that the computer is experiencing an error; the Mac's equivalent of the PC's hourglass icon.
"Hey, Bill. Call the Helpdesk. I'm getting the spinning ball of death again!"
spinning ball of death by BeAtPeace December 9, 2008

Spinning death 

When she decides to violently rotate on it 360 degrees causing it to twist off and explode from heat friction.
doctor: "so how'd you end up here?"

the victim: "she was like 'oh I have an idea'"

doctor: "oh, don't tell me, spinning death?"

the victim: "oh has it happened to you too?"

doctor pulls down his pants to reveal a cindering hole of where once laid rest a majestic cock that had falling in battle, to a spinning death attack. Donate today for spinning death victims.

Spinny Wheel of Death 

The colorful waiting sign on a mac when your program is not responding causing a slow a death due to high stress levels
Don't give me the spinny wheel of death!

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?
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trucker's tan 

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I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
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Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
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Pee Calculus

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I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
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"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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