self-delete

verb — 3 senses

self-delete

verb

Etymology From self- + delete.

1

Internet, Euphemistic, Humorous To commit suicide; to take one's own life.

2

Informal, Jargon To self-destruct.

3

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.

Derived terms
self-deletion

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