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core dump n.

[common [Iron Age] jargon, preserved by Unix] 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of [core], produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or registering extreme shock. "He dumped core. All over the floor. What a mess." "He heard about X and dumped core." 3. Occasionally used for a human rambling on pointlessly at great length; esp. in apology: "Sorry, I dumped core on you". 4. A recapitulation of knowledge (compare [bits], sense 1). Hence, spewing all one knows about a topic (syn. [brain dump]), esp. in a lecture or answer to an exam question. "Short, concise answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia). See [core].

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