heart attack
Noun

heart attack (plural heart attacks)

  1. (cardiology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
    Synonyms: myocardial infarction
  2. (figuratively) Death or failure.
    My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.
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