English Explanatory Dictionary

fail whale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fail whale.wav

Word forms

fail whale fail whales

Etymology

The fail whale originated on Twitter; the term was coined by web designer Jen Simmons in 2007 in a tweet.

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