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snuff; snuff out
verb
to kill someone UK, 1932
In C19 slang, “to die”, and then later the transitive “to kill”.- “I’ll kill the sonofabitch, Floyd; I’ll snuff the bastard,” Rudy had said. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 171, 1960
- Kenneth “Country” beamer, vice-president of the San Bernadino chapter, had been snuffed by a truck a few days earlier[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 13, 1966
- When he flashed on that, on the downright outrageousness of that pack of scumbags paying somebody to snuff him, of even insinuating they’d do such a thing, Emmett began to shake with rage. — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 349, 1972
- What are you guys gonna do, Buff? Snuff a pig? — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 121, 1973
- That guy I snuffed last night ain’t going to take the witness stand too soon. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 91, 1981
- Some of the things these fellas want to do, some of the people they want to snuff! — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 171, 1986
- They snuffed my best friend, Peaches Supreme. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 278, 1990
- But maybe they could at least snuff that red-assed dog. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 63, 1993
- Forgive me, Father, because I snuffed Loretta Ricci. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 85, 2001
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