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stroke out

verb

stroke out

verb
1

Colloquial To suffer a stroke (interruption of blood supply to the brain); especially, to suffer a fatal one.

  • A lesion that wasn't malignant and gooey, a patient that wasn't going to stroke out or wake up dead.1990, Steve Fishman, Bomb in the Brain, page 171:
Related terms
crash out, pass out, bleed out

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