(computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a Windows operating system from (a computer).
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(transitive) To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window.
1998 September 25, Lane Smith, quoted in "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100207213427/http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,88538,00.html TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka]", in Time for Kids:
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(transitive) To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
: I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
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