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COUGH AND DIE

Specialty Definition: COUGH AND DIE

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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." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COUGH AND DIE

Specialty definitions using "COUGH AND DIE": scream and die. (references)

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Anagrams: COUGH AND DIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-g-h-i-n-o-u"

-2 letters: coheading.

-3 letters: adducing, decoding, deducing, douching, guidance.

-4 letters: adenoid, candied, chained, changed, chidden, codding, codeina, coigned, coinage, congaed, coughed, dadoing, decagon, decidua, deucing, douched, dudgeon, duodena, echidna, echoing, educing, godhead, gonadic, gouache, heading, hedonic, hounded, incaged, induced, ouching, unaided, uncaged, uncoded.

-5 letters: aching, acnode, adding, adduce, aeonic, agonic, anodic, auding, augend, caddie, cadged, candid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COUGH AND DIE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 55 47 48      41 4E 44      44 49 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010101 01000111 01001000 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000100 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#85 &#71 &#72 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0055 0047 0048      0041 004E 0044      0044 0049 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374955414223548382384339

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