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• 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....
• cream and die: v. Syn. {cough and die}, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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...
• cream and die v. Syn. cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
• 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
• blow out: [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] vi.
  Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as {crash and burn}....
• die horribly v. The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of
• A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the ligh
  but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it....