beachball
verbEtymology From beach + ball.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Slang To hang; to stop responding to user input; (used of Mac computers, where this is indicated by a spinning coloured cursor like a beach ball).
- Is Xcode “beachballing” forever on you when we try to open a project that was working fine the day before?2015, Magno Urbano, Troubleshooting Xcode, Apress, →ISBN, page 54: