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2. Adjective. (UK army slang) Dead. ¹

3. Noun. (UK army slang) The end; enough, ¹

4. Verb. (UK army slang) To finish; to put an end to; to kill. ¹

5. Interjection. (UK army slang) There is no more. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Napoo

1. to kill [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: kill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Napoo

Literary usage of Napoo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Big Game of Baltistan and Ladakh: A Summer in High Asia, Being a Record by Frederick Edward Shafto Adair, Stuart Hill Godfrey (1899)
"During the afternoon I went up the stream and shot some teal and a duck, and saw some female napoo on the heights above. Our route now lay across a plain to ..."

2. Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas by Donald Macintyre (1891)
"Although the wild sheep here called napoo are numerous in ... A full-grown male napoo or burrell (Ovis ..."

3. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1914)
"... inside of Ten- napoo & so up into Beverly harbour, & then out & round the Neck to Derby wharf again. We had a little psalmody at the close, ..."

4. A Soldier of the Sky by George Frederick Campbell (1918)
"WOUNDED AGAIN "napoo!" Every day now I felt a premonition that I could not go ... Soon it must be "napoo" for me, in the phrase commonly used by our boys to ..."

5. Books in the War: The Romance of Library War Service by Theodore Wesley Koch (1919)
""napoo fini" expresses gone, through with, finished, disappeared. ... It is the opposite of "napoo." Tommy also found a new phrase to take the place of the ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"After a careful scrutiny of the ground with the glass, I discerned a flock of about fifteen napoo nearly a mile off. As none of them appeared to be old rams ..."

7. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language to which is Appended an English by Lorrin Andrews (1865)
"3. The rays of the sun reflected by the water. NA-POO-POO, v. See napoo. To plunge down ; to enter out of sight, as in the make straight. NA-PO-NA-PO, adj. ..."

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