bump off

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to kill someone deliberately, in informal speech

   Phrasal verb · Separable

   bump someone off / bump off someone

   Usage: This informal expression takes the person killed as object. Put a pronoun between the verb and particle: bump him off.

   In the crime novel, the gang plans to bump off a witness before the trial.

   Sources and attribution

   OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook

   • The Missing Workbook: original construction review

   In the crime novel, the gang plans to bump off a witness before the trial.

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