croak

noun

1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The call of a frog or toad.
3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

verb

1. (intransitive)To make a croak sound.
2. (transitive)To utter in a low, hoarse voice.

   “The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.”

   ““I am so tired,” he croaked. “It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks in Castaway years.””

3. (intransitive)To make its vocal sound.
4. (slang)To die.
5. (slang, transitive)To kill.

   “He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.”

   “"It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."”

   “If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.”

6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

   “Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.”

7. (slang)To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.

   “The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.”

name

1. A surname from Irish.