BUY IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buy it mean? 

• BUY IT (verb)
  The verb BUY IT has 1 sense:

1. be killed or die

  Familiarity information: BUY IT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUY IT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be killed or die

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buy it; pip out

Hypernyms (to "buy it" is one way to...):

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Sign papers early in the month, and if you need a computer or new smartphone, buy it in the first days of February, or wait until mid-March.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You can buy it in any book-store or draw it from the public library.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I did not buy it, I gave a pig for it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If it’s on the market I’ll buy it—if it means another penny on the income-tax.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Would you know how to buy it, my darling?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The land was so very desirable for me in every respect, so immediately adjoining my own property, that I felt it my duty to buy it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had fifty minds to buy it myself, for it is one of my maxims always to buy a good horse when I meet with one; but it would not answer my purpose, it would not do for the field.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Shop now for a car or any electronic items you need for you will likely enjoy your product if you buy it in January.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You have tried, you know that,—but the editors won't buy it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)