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bump off

verb

Definition of bump off 

transitive verb

: to murder casually or cold-bloodedly

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assassinate, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, get, liquidate, murder, rub out, slay, terminate

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Examples of bump off in a Sentence

these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way

First Known Use of bump off

1907, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bump off was in 1907

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