buy it
buy it verb: to die.
Verb
buy it (third-person singular simple present buys it, present participle buying it, simple past and past participle bought it)
- To die.
- He bought it in a shootout.
- Synonyms:
- buy the farm, kick the bucket, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord
- To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it.
- He claims that he'll pay me back, but I don't buy it.
- He was claiming that he'd pay her back, but she wasn't buying it.
- Synonyms:
- have it
buy it meaning in Bengali
buy it in Bengali
- মারা যাওয়া, তা সমর্থন করা
Synonyms of buy it
- buy the farm
- kick the bucket
- assume room temperature
- auger in
- be called home
- be like the the One
- be no more
- be with Jesus
- be with the Lord
- bite the big one
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- bite the biscuit
- bite the dust
- cark it
- cash in
- cash in one's chips
- check out
- close one's eyes for the last time
- code
- conk out
- croak
- cross over
- cross the Great Divide
- cross the Styx
- darken
- decease
- decompose
- dematerialize
- depart
- disincarnate
- draw one's last breath
- drop off the hooks
- exit
- expire
- fall off the twig
- flatline
- give one's all
- give up the ghost
- go for a burton
- go out
- go over to the majority
Forms of buy it
| third-person singular present | buys it |
|---|---|
| present participle | buying it |
| past participle | bought it |
| past | bought it |
Origin of buy it
* In the die sense, apparently attested since the 1820s, thus earlier than the variant buy the farm, which may be an extension of it. * In the have it sense, an elliptical allusion to believing a sales pitch.
Words that rhyme with buy it
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Questions about buy it
- What does buy it mean?
- Buy it means to die.
- What is buy it in Bengali?
- Buy it in Bengali is মারা যাওয়া, তা সমর্থন করা. See Buy it meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is buy it?
- Buy it is a verb.
- What is the past tense of buy it?
- The past tense of buy it is bought it.
Words near buy it in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: buy it (page history and authors); buy it (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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