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• cream and die v. Syn. cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
• 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....
• 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....
• krog: v. Syn. {scrog}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• die: v. Syn. {crash}. Unlike {crash}, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.
  See also {go flatline}, {casters-up mode}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• CCD: Choke Cough and Die
• die horribly: v. The software equivalent of {crash and burn}, and the preferred emphatic form of {die}.
  The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly". -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• drain: [IBM] v. Syn. for {flush} (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about i
  one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ool: 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program.
  Oppose {app}, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple, `transparent' (typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter}, {plumbing})....