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BUY IT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be killed or die
Synonyms:
buy it; pip out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "buy it" is one way to...):
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Sometimes, for example, when we passed a butcher's shop, I would say: Now suppose, my pet, that we were married, and you were going to buy a shoulder of mutton for dinner, would you know how to buy it?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If you need a new kitchen appliance, computer, smart phone, earphones, car, or other electronic product, buy it in the first week of February, staying as far from Mercury retrograde (February 16) as possible.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
And he could buy it and the bay for a thousand Chili dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You may find the same product at a considerably lower price only a month later. You may accidentally drop the product soon after you buy it and not have insurance to cover the repair, but have it fixed anyway and later find the item never worked right.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Like to buy it?
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
