croak

Also, to kick the bucket, go 6 feet under, be pushing up dasies, worm food, etc...

A function provided by the Perl module Carp.pm. Equivalent to the builtin function die, except the error message lists the calling block as the source of the exception.

Youse guys go uptown tonight and croak that pigeon.
 

As an intransitive verb, croak means die.

Yeah, that pigeon croaked last night, but I don't know nothin' about it.

Croak (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Croaked. (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Croaking.] [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. krchzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake.]

1.

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

2.

To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

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Croak, v. t.

To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.

The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak.

Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.

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Croak, n.

The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

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