Death by PowerPoint
Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A painful experience caused by overly long, dense, or performative slide presentations that replace clearer direct communication. In engineering slang, death by PowerPoint is what happens when explanation turns into ritualized boredom.
In plain English: A miserable overload of long dull slide presentations.
Example: "The architecture review became death by PowerPoint, with forty slides of boxes and arrows before anyone addressed the one operational risk people actually cared about."