"put someone's lights out" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "put<,,put> someone's lights out"
      },
      "expansion": "put someone's lights out (third-person singular simple present puts someone's lights out, present participle putting someone's lights out, simple past and past participle put someone's lights out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 September 16, “More than 300 million to see THE fight tonight”, in Beaver County Times, retrieved 2015-11-12, page C1",
          "text": "\"He's taken an awful lot of punches in his last few fights and if Thomas hits him like that, he'll put his lights out. It'll be like a blackout.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984 August 28, Bert Rosenthal, “Hagler looks forward to Garden visit”, in Kentucky New Era, retrieved 2015-11-12, page C1",
          "text": "The last time I fought Mustafa, I just wanted to give him a beating. . . . This time, I want to put his lights out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 December 31, Bill Copeland, “True love is where you find it”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, retrieved 2015-11-12, page 4E",
          "text": "[H]e knew every trick in the books, combatwise, and \"could put your lights out with a simple sustained pressure on a carotid nerve.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause someone to become unconscious, especially by striking him or her."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "unconscious",
          "unconscious"
        ],
        [
          "striking",
          "strike"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To cause someone to become unconscious, especially by striking him or her."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "punch someone's lights out"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "someone",
          "word": "knock out"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "put someone's lights out"
}

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    {
      "form": "puts someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "putting someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put someone's lights out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "put<,,put> someone's lights out"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "punch someone's lights out"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1981 September 16, “More than 300 million to see THE fight tonight”, in Beaver County Times, retrieved 2015-11-12, page C1",
          "text": "\"He's taken an awful lot of punches in his last few fights and if Thomas hits him like that, he'll put his lights out. It'll be like a blackout.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984 August 28, Bert Rosenthal, “Hagler looks forward to Garden visit”, in Kentucky New Era, retrieved 2015-11-12, page C1",
          "text": "The last time I fought Mustafa, I just wanted to give him a beating. . . . This time, I want to put his lights out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 December 31, Bill Copeland, “True love is where you find it”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, retrieved 2015-11-12, page 4E",
          "text": "[H]e knew every trick in the books, combatwise, and \"could put your lights out with a simple sustained pressure on a carotid nerve.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause someone to become unconscious, especially by striking him or her."
      ],
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        [
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          "unconscious"
        ],
        [
          "striking",
          "strike"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To cause someone to become unconscious, especially by striking him or her."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "someone",
      "word": "knock out"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put someone's lights out"
}