"cark it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: EN-AU ck1 cark it.ogg [Australia] Forms: carks it [present, singular, third-person], carking it [participle, present], carked it [participle, past], carked it [past]
Etymology: Possibly a shortening of carcass + it. Apparently not related to cark (“to worry”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|carcass}} carcass, {{m|en|it}} it, {{m|en|cark||to worry}} cark (“to worry”) Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cark it (third-person singular simple present carks it, present participle carking it, simple past and past participle carked it)
  1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To die. Tags: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang Categories (topical): Death

Inflected forms

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