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death nail

death nail noun: eggcorn of death knell.

Noun

death nail

  1. Eggcorn of death knell.

Origin of death nail

Seemingly conflated with the phrase nail in one's coffin.

Questions about death nail

What does death nail mean?
Death nail means eggcorn of death knell.
What part of speech is death nail?
Death nail is a noun.

Words near death nail in the dictionary

  1. death messenger
  2. death messengers
  3. death metal
  4. death metaller
  5. death metallers
  6. death nail
  7. death note
  8. death notes
  9. death notification
  10. death notifications
  11. death of despair

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