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Troubleshooting 

Working to repair an issue to a problem

Making something that's not working as desired work again
The trouble with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back!
My computer wont work and I really need my IT guy to get here and start troubleshooting.
Troubleshooting by The IT Director October 7, 2012

troubleshooting 

when your shooting dope and you just cant find a GOD DAMN VEIN. FUCK!
Shit man I'm troubleshooting over here, I just can't hit it!
troubleshooting by BANGDOPE July 20, 2008

Troubleshooting 

Own Loves troubleshooting, he troubleshoots his troubleshooting obsession
Owen what you doing to night? *No reply due to Troubleshooting*
Owen was watching troubleshooting porn, while troubleshooting his pants
Troubleshooting by iamBassline November 5, 2018

trouble shooting 

A pathetic attempt by a piece of software and/or human user at solving a problem which will persist despite any efforts short of divine intervention
After attempting to trouble shoot Windows ME errors for an hour, I was having trouble keeping myself from shooting my computer

troubleshouting 

1. A technical support agent may apologize to his co-workers for troubleshouting so loudly after a call with a customer that is hard of hearing.

2. "That last customer was a douchebag. He wouldn't listen to what I was telling him, so the call went from troubleshooting to troubleshouting."

3. "I called tech support but the guy must have been in techsupportistan because we couldn't understand each other. We spent 45 minutes troubleshouting and nothing got resolved."
troubleshouting by FuLoRi May 12, 2008

trouble shooting 

A window that pops up whenever there's a problem with your Windows, and never actually suggests a solution that helps fixing it.
The reason your CD-ROM doesn't work is because of blah blah.....

Did that solve the problem?
-Yes after I did that the CD-ROM works now
-No that didn't help me


Select No and the next page says:

We couldn't solve your problem with this trouble shooting session.
trouble shooting by Tosh November 2, 2003
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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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