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bump off verb to kill someone US, 1907- [T]hey’ll get out of here now, all join up in the Air Corps and become heroes and bump off fifty, a hundred, a thousand Japs[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 314, 1946
- Can I help it if somebody bumps off the teacher? — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 91, 1947
- In it they had written the names of their enemies and the guys they were going to bump off. — Willard Motley, Knock on Any Door, p. 122, 1947
- You can see the processes working in the reuslts: two of the eye witnesses recanted; the third was bumped off. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 234, 1950
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