Definition of "croak"

croak

/kɹoʊk/

noun
plural croaks
1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
verb
third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked
1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
2. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  Quotations
  The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene v]
3. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
4. (slang) To die.
5. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
  Quotations
  "It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."
  1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 216, column 2
  If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.
  1925, G. K. Chesterton, The Arrow of Heaven (first published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1925)
6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
  Quotations
  Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.
  1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, (please specify the book or page number)
7. (programming slang, Perl) To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.
  Quotations
  The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.
  2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl, O'Reilly, page 200

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