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death
noun- paramethoxyamphetamine or 4-methoxyamphetamine (PMA), a synthetic hallucinogen AUSTRALIA
- Known on the streets as “Death”, PMA looks like Ecstasy and has similar effects, but it is a chemical killing machine. — Glasgow Herald (Australia), 23 August 1997
- I know Es are lethal and kill people, but not like this drug does. It’s nicknamed “Death”, for God’s sake. — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 78, 1999
- someone or something that is exquisitely perfect US, 1965
- David Frazer said she was death. — Diner, 1982
- . — Levi Straus & Company, Campus Slang, p. 2, January 1986
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 28, 1991
- a difficult situation, such as an exam, a hangover, etc US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Fall 1987
- in harness racing, the position just behind and outside the leader US, 1997
Because the horse in that position has to travel farther than horses on the inside and does not have the benefit of a lead horse breaking the wind resistance.
▶ at the death
in the finish UK
Figurative sense of a conventional “end”.- I persuade him at the death[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 55, 1962
▶ like death; like death warmed up
feeling or appearing extremely unwell UK, 1939- — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 105, 1962
- Won’t be a move outta ’im fer today anyhow. Right now he looks like death warmed up. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 105, 1962
- — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 53, 1972
- [L]eaving some of the Leicester players “looking like death warmed up with the shock”. — William Fotheringham, The Guardian, 7 April 2003
- I’m coming off the tablets and I’m going to feel like death, so don’t ask me to do anything. — Michele Kirsch, The Observer, 3 February 2003
▶ to death- to the extreme; superlative UK
- At home, Mum had my little sister Sherry and I loved her to death. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 19, 1998
- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 74, 2002
- frequently and ad nauseum UK, 1937
- [W]hen you’re a writer you’ve got to look hard for new experiences. Coke and smackalogues have been done to death. — The Guardian, 23 February 2002
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