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bump off

verb

slang.
tr, adverb to murder; kill

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Kill, murder, as in The convict bragged about bumping off his partner , or The first fighter plane bumped off three enemy aircraft . This term was at first principally criminal slang and somewhat later military jargon. [ Slang ; c. 1900]

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