"meet a sticky end" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-meet a sticky end.ogg Forms: meets a sticky end [present, singular, third-person], meeting a sticky end [participle, present], met a sticky end [participle, past], met a sticky end [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|meet<,,met> a sticky end}} meet a sticky end (third-person singular simple present meets a sticky end, present participle meeting a sticky end, simple past and past participle met a sticky end)
  1. (idiomatic, British) To die unpleasantly due to one's actions. Tags: British, idiomatic Synonyms: come to a sticky end
    Sense id: en-meet_a_sticky_end-en-verb-~FhrWLXf Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        "To die unpleasantly due to one's actions."
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        "(idiomatic, British) To die unpleasantly due to one's actions."
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