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buy the big one en · VERB

Meanings

1. (slang) To die.
   • "Frita is dead!" "Dead?" Despair whispered as his empty eyes fell open. "Dead, died, defunct, over and out, bought the big one, kicked bucket, the last hurrah, regards to Broadway, pushing up daisies, renting dirt space, cashing in her chips and tuning up her harp." 2003, Dexter C. Herron, Knight of Chaos, Author House, →ISBN, page 194:
   • The impact threw the passengers "hard forward" and the cabin filled with choking, blinding smoke. "I thought I'd already bought the big one," he said. "I wished I'd been killed on impact so that I didn't have to go through that." 2015, Thomas Fensch, Associated Press Coverage of a Major Disaster: The Crash of Delta Flight 1141, Routledge, →ISBN, page 159:
   • "but it was my partner, Porter Forge, who threw me his SIG so I could shoot him. Otherwise I would have died in the line of duty." "But it was Savich who bought the big one," Petty said. 1998, Catherine Coulter, The Maze, Penguin, →ISBN, page 14:

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Synonyms

pass on · 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 · 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 · check out · kick the bucket · cross over · pay nature's debt · cross the Styx · 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 · bite the big one