snuff someone out
snuff out
1. To extinguish something, especially a flame. A noun or pronoun can be used between "snuff" and "out." She snuffed the flame of the candle out between her fingers. The system uses halon gas to snuff out fire before it has a chance to spread.
2. To put a sudden and conclusive end to something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "snuff" and "out." That loss snuffs out their chances of making it to the playoffs.
3. To kill someone. A noun or pronoun can be used between "snuff" and "out." He was planning on going to the police, but the criminals snuffed him out before he had the chance. Tragically, he was snuffed out in his prime by cancer.
See also: out, snuff
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
snuff someone (out)
tv. to kill someone. Max really wanted to snuff the eyewitness out, once and for all.
See also: out, snuff, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- snuff out
- involve with
- involve with (someone or something)
- involved with
- arrange for
- arrange for some time
- arrange some music for
- an old flame
- an/(one's) old flame
- old flame