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}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {scream and die}]