self-delete

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ delete.

Pronunciation

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Verb

self-delete (third-person singular simple present self-deletes, present participle self-deleting, simple past and past participle self-deleted)

1. (algospeak, intransitive) To commit suicide.
2. (informal, jargon, intransitive) To self-destruct.
3. (computing, programming, intransitive) Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.

Derived terms

• self-deletion