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slip one's wind en · VERB

Etymology

An allusion to the person no longer breathing.

Meanings

  1. (slang) To die.
    • “Hullo!” says Troke, running to the heap of clothes, “the young un's slipped his wind!” Kirkland was dead. 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 277:

Forms

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slipped one's wind Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
slipped one's wind Tense=Past lexicographic
slips one's wind Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
slipping one's wind Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic