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View synonyms for bump off

bump off

verb

  1. slang.
    tr, adverb to murder; kill
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Kill, murder, as in The convict bragged about bumping off his partner , or The first fighter plane bumped off three enemy aircraft . This term was at first principally criminal slang and somewhat later military jargon. [ Slang ; c. 1900]

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