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Definition of "bluescreen" [bluescreen]

  • To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware. (verb)
  • Alternative spelling of blue screen. (noun)

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Use "bluescreen" in a sentence
  • "Not all of this flash-bang-computer generated backdrops and sets that make the actors seem lifeless because they are infront of freaggin bluescreen."
  • "Watching some recent movies, it occurred to me that the use of "bluescreen" effects -- having characters play their scenes in front of a blank screen and then adding in the background digitally -- may prove to be to today's movies what rear projection was to movies from the '30s through the '60s: something that almost instantly dates a movie and makes it look kind of cheesy."
  • "Robert's laptop has a "bluescreen" issue, which is not good."