MAGIC SMOKE


Meaning of MAGIC SMOKE in English

The stuff inside expensive electric things that you can smell if you accidentally zorch them on a dry winter day. Once you let it out, that thing will never work again. Example: I touched my Palm Pilot after shuffling across the rug, and I think I let out the magic smoke because now it doesn't work.

Slang English vocab.      Английский сленговый словарь.