a characteristic deep hoarse sound made by a frog or a crow:a female frog can pick out a mate’s voice from a cacophony of croaks
a sound resembling a croak:Lorton tried to laugh—it came out as a croak
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1(of a frog or crow) make a characteristic deep hoarse sound:the frogs settled in the shade, croaking happily
(of a person) make a sound similar to a croak when speaking or laughing: [with direct speech]:‘Thank you,’ I croaked
archaic prophesy evil or misfortune, especially unjustifiably and to the irritation of others:without croaking, it may be observed that our government is upon a dangerous experiment
2 informal die:the dog finally croaked in 1987
[with object] kill (someone):there are a few people down there who’d like to croak him
