stroke out

English

Verb

stroke out (third-person singular simple present strokes out, present participle stroking out, simple past and past participle stroked out)

  1. (colloquial) To suffer a stroke (interruption of blood supply to the brain).
    • 1990, Steve Fishman, Bomb in the Brain, page 171:
      A lesion that wasn't malignant and gooey, a patient that wasn't going to stroke out or wake up dead.

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