bumpoff

[ buhmp-awf, -of ]

nounSlang.

Origin of bumpoff

1
1905–10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase bump off

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British Dictionary definitions for bump off

bump off

verb
  1. (tr, adverb) slang to murder; kill

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Other Idioms and Phrases with bumpoff

bumpoff

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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