cark

«cark» in Mova's school dictionary: to die: "the old dog finally carked it" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (cark, carks, carked, carking) — Australian and New Zealand slang, used mainly as "cark it"

meaning for a pupil

1) (slang, Australia/New Zealand) To cark it means to die: "the old dog finally carked it". tree →

2) (slang, Australia/New Zealand) To cark it can also mean to break down or stop working: "my phone carked it". tree →

3) (old, literary) Cark meant worry or care, as in "carking cares"; this is very rare now. tree →

sense in the lessons

In Australian and New Zealand everyday talk and in funny stories, "cark it" is a casual, slightly rough way to say something died or broke. It is not polite to use about a person who has just died; say "passed away" instead. Phrases: cark it, carked it.

examples

• The car carked it halfway up the hill. tree →
• My goldfish carked it last week. tree →
• The laptop carked it right before my project was due. tree →
• "Is the battery flat?" "Yep, carked it." tree →
• Grandpa says his old lawnmower is about to cark it. tree →
• The heater carked it in the middle of winter. tree →

note

Slang (Australia and New Zealand); not used in formal writing. Past: carked. Similar slang: kick the bucket, croak, conk out (for machines). The polite euphemism for a person dying is "passed away".

In the corpora

• "Carked it" means died; it is Australian slang.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cark» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.