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bump off (third-person singular simple presentbumps off,present participlebumping off,simple past and past participlebumped off)

(chiefly US, idiomatic) Tokill, especially tomurder.
- 1921,William MacLeod Raine, chapter 34, inGunsight Pass:
  "Well, he's been wrong ever since I had tobump off Tim Harrigan. Talks about a fair break. As if I had a chance to let the old man get to a gun."
- 1990 January 12, Bill Watterson,Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
  The snow goons aren't moving! They're asleep! Now's our chance to gobump 'emoff!
- 2006 February 8, Caryn James, “CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Ordinary Killers: A Theme of the Movie Moment”, inThe New York Times‎^[1], archived fromthe original on15 February 2018, retrieved27 December 2008:
  InMatch Point, when a mistress is about to blab to a wife, threatening a man's comfortable life, his solution is tobump off the girlfriend.
(chiefly UK, idiomatic) Tocut class; toplay truant.
Synonym:bunk off