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.

Anagrams

• outstroke