bump off
English
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[edit]bump off (third-person singular simple present bumps off, present participle bumping off, simple past and past participle bumped off)
- (chiefly US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
- 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 34, in Gunsight Pass:
- "Well, he's been wrong ever since I had to bump off Tim Harrigan. Talks about a fair break. As if I had a chance to let the old man get to a gun."
- 1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 88:
- He could imagine M calling in the Chief of Staff. "007's already tangled up with the FBI. Dam' fool went up to Harlem last night and bumped off three of Mr. Big's men. Got hurt himself, apparently, but not much."
- 1990 January 12, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
- The snow goons aren't moving! They're asleep! Now's our chance to go bump 'em off!
- 2006 February 8, Caryn James, “CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Ordinary Killers: A Theme of the Movie Moment”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 February 2018, retrieved 27 December 2008:
- In Match Point, when a mistress is about to blab to a wife, threatening a man's comfortable life, his solution is to bump off the girlfriend.
- (chiefly UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant.
- Synonym: bunk off
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[edit]to murder
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