May 15, 2003

cough and die

v.

Syn. barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died. Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:52 AM

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