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# cark

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

«cark» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (slang, Australia/New Zealand) To cark it means to die: "the old dog finally carked it". [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cark» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cark/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cark» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cark.html) on Mova free.