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bumped off

bumped off is the simple past and past participle of bump off.

Meaning of bump off

Verb

bump off (third-person singular simple present bumps off, present participle bumping off, simple past and past participle bumped off)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
    • "Well, he's been wrong ever since I had to bump off Tim Harrigan. Talks about a fair break. As if I had a chance to let the old man get to a gun."1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 34, in Gunsight Pass
  2. (UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant.
    Synonyms:
    bunk off

Questions about bumped off

What is bumped off the simple past and past participle of?
Bumped off is the simple past and past participle of bump off.

Words near bumped off in the dictionary

  1. bumped across
  2. bumped and grinded
  3. bumped and ground
  4. bumped elbows
  5. bumped nasties
  6. bumped off
  7. bumped on
  8. bumped one's gums
  9. bumped purses
  10. bumped uglies
  11. bumped up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumped off (page history and authors); bump off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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