Core Dump (slang)

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A figurative way of describing a sudden uncontrolled outpouring of thoughts, details, emotions, or context, by analogy to a program dumping memory after a crash. In tech circles it often describes oversharing technical state or mentally crashing under load.

    In plain English: A tech metaphor for blurting out a lot of information all at once.

    Example: "Sorry for the core dump, but here’s everything I know about the outage so far."

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