"eat lead" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-eat lead.wav Forms: eats lead [present, singular, third-person], eating lead [participle, present], ate lead [past], eaten lead [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> lead}} eat lead (third-person singular simple present eats lead, present participle eating lead, simple past ate lead, past participle eaten lead)
  1. (figurative) To be shot; to be hit with bullets. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-eat_lead-en-verb-slJB8bzG
  2. (figurative) To commit suicide by shooting oneself in the mouth with a firearm. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-eat_lead-en-verb-u8P1ZIkU Disambiguation of Violence: 18 82 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English predicates, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English predicates: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 76 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79

Inflected forms

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