bump off
Verb
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Verb
bump off
- (chiefly, US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
- 2006, Caryn James, "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Ordinary Killers: A Theme of the Movie Moment ↗," New York Times, 8 Feb. (retrieved 27 Dec. 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.
- 2006, Caryn James, "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Ordinary Killers: A Theme of the Movie Moment ↗," New York Times, 8 Feb. (retrieved 27 Dec. 2008):
- (chiefly, UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant.
- bumpoff (n.)
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