black-holev.
/ˌblakˈhəʊl/, U.S. /ˈblækˈhoʊl/ 1. transitive. To confine in the black hole (black hole n. 1b). Now rare (figurative in later use).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > imprison in a dungeon
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1834 Morning Chron. (London) 17 Oct. He had been extra-drilled, black-holed, pardoned innumerable times.
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 28/2 Victims who were being black-holed with surprising resignation.
1866 Punch 3 Nov. 181/2 Charged with illegally black-holing, ducking, and otherwise violently assaulting the paupers under his charge.
1908 E. M. Sneyd-Kynnersley H.M.I. xxviii. 334 Classrooms, which..held only twenty-five children, were insanitary when sixty-five were black-holed in them.
2. transitive. Computing. To discard (network traffic) without warning or notification. Also intransitive: (of network traffic) to be discarded in this way (rare).
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1992 R. Perlman Interconnections iv. 114 A nonworking cache entry will cause traffic to a destination to ‘black hole’ for an intolerably long time.
1995 C. Huitema Routing in Internet vii. 174 This can have multiple consequences, from directing traffic on an inefficient route if a real path does exist between X and Y to ‘black-holing’ all of Y's traffic.
1998 Wired Feb. 42 Sites have been blackholing all Well email, legitimate or not, because of the quantity of Well-relayed spam deluging their servers.
2008 S. Brunner et al. ScreenOS Cookbk. xix. 694 There are multiple ways to blackhole traffic. For example, you could use a null route or configure a policy to deny traffic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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