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killer poke n.
A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see [poke]) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on [bitty box]es without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor. See also [HCF].