buy the big one

English

Verb

buy the big one (third-person singular simple present buys the big one, present participle buying the big one, simple past and past participle bought the big one)

  1. (slang) To die.
    • 1998, Catherine Coulter, The Maze‎[1], Penguin, →ISBN, page 14:
      "but it was my partner, Porter Forge, who threw me his SIG so I could shoot him. Otherwise I would have died in the line of duty." "But it was Savich who bought the big one," Petty said.
    • 2003, Dexter C. Herron, Knight of Chaos‎[2], Author House, →ISBN, page 194:
      "Frita is dead!"
      "Dead?" Despair whispered as his empty eyes fell open.
      "Dead, died, defunct, over and out, bought the big one, kicked bucket, the last hurrah, regards to Broadway, pushing up daisies, renting dirt space, cashing in her chips and tuning up her harp."
    • 2015, Thomas Fensch, Associated Press Coverage of a Major Disaster: The Crash of Delta Flight 1141‎[3], Routledge, →ISBN, page 159:
      The impact threw the passengers "hard forward" and the cabin filled with choking, blinding smoke. "I thought I'd already bought the big one," he said. "I wished I'd been killed on impact so that I didn't have to go through that."

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