Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
The fail whale originated on Twitter; the term was coined by web designer Jen Simmons in 2007 in a tweet.
