COUGH AND DIE


Meaning of COUGH AND DIE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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 .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.