croup
noun/kruːp/
/kruːp/
[uncountable]- a disease of children that makes them cough (= force air through the throat noisily) a lot and have difficulty breathingTopics Health problemsc2Word Originmid 18th cent.: from dialect croup ‘to croak’, of imitative origin.
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