"bump off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bump off.ogg [Australia] Forms: bumps off [present, singular, third-person], bumping off [participle, present], bumped off [participle, past], bumped off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bump off (third-person singular simple present bumps off, present participle bumping off, simple past and past participle bumped off)
  1. (chiefly US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder. Tags: US, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-bump_off-en-verb-XZxljica Categories (other): American English
  2. (chiefly UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant. Tags: UK, idiomatic Categories (topical): Death Synonyms: bunk off
    Sense id: en-bump_off-en-verb-Iq6PadxD Disambiguation of Death: 24 76 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (off), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 25 75 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bumpoff

Inflected forms

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