drop-outs: n. 1. A variety of `power glitch' (see glitch);
momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters
in typed input due to software malfunction or system saturation (one
cause of such behavior under Unix when a bad connection to a modem
swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see
screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing
those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple
of beats. See glitch, fried.
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