"blow someone's brains out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-blow someone's brains out.ogg [Australia] Forms: blows someone's brains out [present, singular, third-person], blowing someone's brains out [participle, present], blew someone's brains out [past], blown someone's brains out [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|blow<,,blew,blown> someone's brains out}} blow someone's brains out (third-person singular simple present blows someone's brains out, present participle blowing someone's brains out, simple past blew someone's brains out, past participle blown someone's brains out)
  1. (slang) To shoot someone in the head. Tags: slang Translations (to shoot in the head): faire sauter la cervelle (French), volarse los sesos (Spanish), pasabugin ang ulo (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-blow_someone's_brains_out-en-verb-D~3n83Hz Disambiguation of 'to shoot in the head': 94 6
  2. (idiomatic, vulgar) To perform fellatio on another person, as to give them an orgasmic experience. Tags: idiomatic, vulgar Synonyms: give head Related terms: blow someone's mind
    Sense id: en-blow_someone's_brains_out-en-verb-~wyIKYoj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 94 Disambiguation of English predicates: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 6 94

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