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bite the big one en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (slang) To die.
   • "I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago." 1983, Susan Arnout, The Frozen Lady, page 397:
   • Fly, be free! Well, I guess we'll have to have a quick burial at sea then. I'll notify your next of kin. Your brother bit the big one. 1978 September 14, Dale McRaven, Mork & Mindy, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams):
2. (slang) To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing.
   • Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ... 1988, Barbara Hambly, The silicon mage, page 5:
3. (idiomatic) To perform poorly; to fail.
   • Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States. 1990, Norman Spinrad, Science fiction in the real world, page 183:
4. (slang) To be unpleasant or undesirable.
   • To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked. 1996, Stephen Kimball, Death duty, page 9:
5. (slang) To perform fellatio.

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Synonyms

pass on · kick the bucket · shuffle off this mortal coil · pay the debt of nature · darken · hand in one's checks · expire · forfare · pass the river · be with the Lord · be like the the One · be no more · assume room temperature · pass in one's checks · snuff it · liquidate · pass over · slip away · buy the big one · go the way of the dodo · keel over · knock off · kick off · exit · cash in · go the way of the dodo bird · give up the ghost · flatline · conk out · go the way of the dinosaurs · disincarnate · pop one's clogs · fall off the twig · lose the number of one's mess · cark it · go over to the majority · cross the Great Divide · perish · yield up the ghost · peg out · draw one's last breath · be gathered to one's fathers · go for a burton · drop off the hooks · bite the big one · close one's eyes for the last time · croak · pass away · take a dirt nap · decease · pop off · hand in one's dinner pail · join the choir invisible · push up daisies · be with Jesus · go to one's reward · hop the twig · buy it · bite the dust · check out · kick the bucket · cross over · pay nature's debt · cross the Styx · buy the farm · cash in one's chips · sleep with one's fathers · pass · sink · depart · go west · go to glory · code · bite the biscuit · decompose · auger in · go out · give one's all · meet one's doom · meet one's end · dematerialize · turn up one's toes · meet one's maker · buy the farm · be called home · succumb · go the way of all flesh · pass in one's marble · bite the dust