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ventilate verb to shoot someone US From the image of bullet holes ventilating the body.- To ventilate your foul ticker if I parted Junior’s crew cut. — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- “So you got to assume that he made the contact. Unless he’s been ventilated.” — Dale Krame, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 30, 1953
- [T]wo coppers who’d just as soon wing him or ventilate him or just play the carom. — William Brashler, City Dogs, p. 10, 1976
- She remembered the pair of white would-be rapists she had ventilated into an intensive care ward six months before at this very alley after the bar closed. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 160, 1979
- You let us in and he’s got a chance to make it. Otherwise, he gets ventilated. — 48 Hours, 1982
- No one ever found out for sure who put all the slugs in Maybelle and Abner. Everyone agreed they deserved getting ventilated[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The Secrets of Harry Bright, p. 41, 1985
- Any bullshit and I’ll ventilate yo ass right here. — Menace II Society, 1993
▶ ventilate the block in hot rodding and drag racing, to blow a rod out through the engine US- — Capitol Records, Hot Rod Jargon, 1963
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