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bump off en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
   • 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." 1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 88:
   • The snow goons aren't moving! They're asleep! Now's our chance to go bump 'em off! 1990 January 12, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
   • 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 February 8, Caryn James, “CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Ordinary Killers: A Theme of the Movie Moment”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2018, retrieved 27 Dec 2008:
   • "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." 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 34, in Gunsight Pass:
2. (UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant.

Forms

Relateds

bumpoff

Synonyms

bunk off

Translations (6)

pl wagarować (to be absent from school without permission) · tr tahtalıköye yollamak (to murder) · fr faire la peau (to murder) · pl mordować (to murder) · pl zamordować (to murder) · fr zigouiller (to murder)