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illegally operate

(on sth/sone, transitive verb) To lose all interest in what is happening or what someone says, causing one to switch off and shut down emotionally.

Derives from the days of Windows 95 when a program, running into an error, would display a dialog box saying "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
"I illegally operated on that idiot ages ago."
illegally operate by Dragonero March 10, 2010
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illegal operation 

Every program causes this in Windows.
Explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down immediately.

illegal operation 

If you have windows, your probably experiancing it right now.
(Illegal Operation Popsup) "Hey, wtf? I was reading about how lame Bill Gates was!" (Illegal Operation: That's why this popped up dumbass.)