cark it

present singular third person carks it · participle present carking it · participle past carked it · past carked it · alternative kark it

1. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKslangTo die.

   The guy was running, then he had a heart attack and carked it.

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   He′d always bragged about carking it before he hit twenty. When he turned twenty, he escalated the date of his demise to twenty-five.

   1989, Kathy Lette, Girl′s Night Out, →ISBN, page 86

   If I hit the little shit too hard his parents could even sue me. There′s a fine line between self-defence and pure and simple mayhem. The little bastard might even cark it.

   1998, Barry Westburg, Glenda & Me & Meathead Go For Broke: Rage of Angels: Expatriate Tales, page 74

   “Hi Bill. Zorah told you about Kate?” “That she carked it? Yeh.” Translation: That she died. Yeah. He flapped his hand in a go-away gesture and started toward the koalas, but not before I saw a haunted look in his eyes. Did he still care for Kate?

   2010, Betty Webb, The Koala of Death, page 10

   “This is about Daniel?” Irene said, and Laura pulled a face. “Yeah, of course it is! Of course it’s about Daniel—I haven’t slept with anyone else who’s carked it lately, have I? I’m a witness, that’s all; I was the last person to see him, you know, alive. It’s nothing to worry about.”

   2021, Paula Hawkins, chapter 26, in A Slow Fire Burning, [New York, N.Y.]: Random House Large Print, →ISBN, page 281