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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | 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. | |
Crosswords: COUGH AND DIE |
| Specialty definitions using "COUGH AND DIE": scream and die. (references) |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 55 47 48      41 4E 44      44 49 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01010101 01000111 01001000 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000100 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O U G H   A N D   D I E |
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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