What is "three-finger salute"

n. (context computing humorous English) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.

Three Finger Salute may refer to:

• Three-finger salute (Serbian), a salute used by Serbs
• Schwurhand, a traditional gesture used in central Europe when swearing an oath
• Tryzub salute, a gesture used to mimic the Ukrainian Tryzub
• Scout sign and salute, the salute of the World Scouting Movement
• Kühnen salute, a replacement for the Nazi salute
• 2014 Thai coup protest symbol, inspired by the Hunger Games

In Culture and Fiction:

• Control-Alt-Delete, a jocular term for the three-key command
• Hunger Games Trilogy, District 12 gesture, showing thanks, admiration, and good-bye to a loved one

The three-finger salute ( / , "three fingers"), commonly known as the Serb salute, is a salute which originally expressed Serbian Orthodoxy, that today simply is an expression, a gesture, for ethnic Serbs and Serbia, made by extending the thumb, index, and middle fingers of one or both hands.