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- verb idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial To
die . - verb idiomatic, colloquial Of a machine, to break down such that it cannot be repaired.
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- verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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yarb commented on the word kick the bucket
To die.
Also a children's game played when I was young. Kick the Bucket was a large-scale game which took a lot of organising and therefore almost never happened. I can't remember the exact rules, but it involved one kid kicking a light metal bucket with as much force as possible off the top of a very steep, wooded hill, and ten or twenty others then charging pell-mell down through the trees.
November 22, 2007
bilby commented on the word kick the bucket
I'm waiting for the Nintendo version.
November 22, 2007