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Definition of Buy it
1. Verb. Be killed or die.
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Generic synonyms: 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
Definition of Buy it
1. Verb. (slang) To die. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buy It
Literary usage of Buy it
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"Wheat is cheap to the labourer at ten guineas the quarter, if he can buy it with
labour at the rate of ten guineas per week ; it is dear to him at twenty ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"silion made for any definite price; but if we could buy the property we were to
buy it together. He was to see what was the best he could do with it. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"ficulty of getting it, and cheapen commodities to buy it. We feel this most
sensibly now. We strike down silver, and in doing so increase the value of gold. ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1870)
"... dwell in a sea full of fish, but they are so idle, they will not catch so much
as shall serve their own turns, but buy it of their neighbours. ..."
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