cash in

Verb

cash in (third-person singular simple present cashes in, present participle cashing in, simple past and past participle cashed in)

1. To exchange for cash.
   • The gamblers cashed in their remaining chips at the end of the night.
   • Some nights, I stay up cashing in my bad luck
     Some nights, I call it a draw2012, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, “Some Nights”, in Some Nights), performed by fun.
2. (intransitive) To settle one's debts, accounts, or bills, especially relating to gambling.
   • He's just mad because I haven't cashed in yet.
3. (figuratively, often) To profit from something; to take advantage of an opportunity in order to profit, especially financially; to capitalize on.
   • Lots of people tried to cash in on that market, but few succeeded.
   • Showman Monte Proser tried to cash in on the boom on a mass basis with his Dance Carnival in Madison Square Garden, where dancers lindy hopped, shagged and fox-trotted to the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Larry Clinton and Charlie Barnett[…]1970, Richard R. Lingeman, Don't You Know There's a War On? […] , Putnam, →ISBN, page 16
4. (slang) To die.
   • He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess; / And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."[…1907, Robert Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses
   • Well, it all ended up, I lost my privileges for two weeks. But someday before I cash in, I hope to make it in the straw.1974, Charles Bukowski, “Purple as an Iris”, in Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions and general tales of ordinary madness, page 414

   Synonyms:

   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, bite the big one, bite the biscuit