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croak
verb- to die UK, 1812
From the death-rattle. - Old Mr. Keller croaked, but he was almost eighty yeas old, he shoulda croaked[.] — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 59, 1970
- You mean all them under them sheets croaked it? — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- It would be a great sensation to croak out on a bike ... I’d like a fucking smash, got to be a good one, or I don’t want to go. — Paul E. Willis, Profane Culture, p. 58, 1978
- Wasn’t Jimmy about your age when he croaked? — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 164, 1984
- [A] couple of years later he went and croaked it, coke-induced heart attack. — Jenny Eclair, Camberwell Beauty, p. 96, 2000
- to kill someone UK, 1823
- Let her go ahead and croak him. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 45, 1959
- I recall pointing to the loaded double-barreled shotgun on my wall and replying, with a smile, that I would croak at least two of them before they got away. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 143, 1966
- “Party” tried his fists and muscle until the pimp game croaked him. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 41, 1969
- When I heard they croaked Charlie I freak out, almost went back to shootin scag. — Charles W. Moore, A Brick for Mister Jones, p. 105, 1975
- to inform on someone, to betray someone US
- — R. Frederick West, God’s Gambler, p. 223, 1964
- in pool, to miscue CANADA, 1988
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 63, 1993
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