celestial transfer en · NOUN
Meanings
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(slang, uncountable) The act of dying; death.
Said Naomi, “Another doctor in a starched white lab coat told me I was going to be taking a six-foot dirt nap. That is, in about three years, I was going to make the old celestial transfer.”
2005, Lanford Beard, editor, E! True Hollywood Story: The Real Stories Behind the Glitter, New York, NY: Chamberlain Bros., →ISBN, page 323:
Synonyms
dirt nap · end · passing · repose · decease · defunction · the big sleep · demise · tomb · dematerialization · celestial transfer · exit · (the) bane · liquidation · mortality · sleep of the just · expiration · downfall · (the) end · death · fall · fatality · decomposition · sunset · crash · doom · quietus