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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#m1)

2) (slang, Australia/New Zealand) To cark it can also mean to break down or stop working: "my phone carked it". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#m2)

3) (old, literary) Cark meant worry or care, as in "carking cares"; this is very rare now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#x1)
- My goldfish carked it last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#x2)
- The laptop carked it right before my project was due. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#x3)
- "Is the battery flat?" "Yep, carked it." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#x4)
- Grandpa says his old lawnmower is about to cark it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#x5)
- The heater carked it in the middle of winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.