"drop off the hooks" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: drops off the hooks [present, singular, third-person], dropping off the hooks [participle, present], dropped off the hooks [participle, past], dropped off the hooks [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} drop off the hooks (third-person singular simple present drops off the hooks, present participle dropping off the hooks, simple past and past participle dropped off the hooks)
  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die. Tags: colloquial, euphemistic, humorous, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-drop_off_the_hooks-en-verb-jx6TKsZL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Death Synonyms: bite the dust, buy the farm, kick the bucket, assume room temperature [slang], auger in [euphemistic], be called home, be gathered to one's fathers [dated, literary], be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm, buy it, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, exit [euphemistic], expire, flatline, forfare, get to be like the one, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go out, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward [euphemistic], go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, kick off, knock off, liquidate, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass [euphemistic], pass away [euphemistic], pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on [euphemistic], pass over [obsolete], pass the river, pay nature's debt [euphemistic], pay the debt of nature [euphemistic], peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink [archaic], sleep with one's fathers [dated, literary], slip away [euphemistic], snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost

Inflected forms

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          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "pop off"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "pop one's clogs"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "shuffle off this mortal coil"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "sink"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "tags": [
            "dated",
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "sleep with one's fathers"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "tags": [
            "euphemistic"
          ],
          "word": "slip away"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "snuff it"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "succumb"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "take a dirt nap"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "turn up one's toes"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:die",
          "word": "yield up the ghost"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "euphemistic",
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop off the hooks"
}

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