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eat one's gun

eat one's gun verb: to commit suicide, especially by use of a firearm discharged into the victim's mouth.

Verb

eat one's gun (third-person singular simple present eats one's gun, present participle eating one's gun, simple past ate one's gun, past participle eaten one's gun)

  1. (idiomatic) To commit suicide, especially by use of a firearm discharged into the victim's mouth.

Forms of eat one's gun

third-person singular presenteats one's gun
present participleeating one's gun
pastate one's gun
past participleeaten one's gun

Questions about eat one's gun

What does eat one's gun mean?
Eat one's gun means to commit suicide, especially by use of a firearm discharged into the victim's mouth.
What part of speech is eat one's gun?
Eat one's gun is a verb.
What is the past tense of eat one's gun?
The past tense of eat one's gun is ate one's gun.

Words near eat one's gun in the dictionary

  1. eat one's cake and have it too
  2. eat one's dinners
  3. eat one's emotions
  4. eat one's feelings
  5. eat one's fill
  6. eat one's gun
  7. eat one's hat
  8. eat one's head off
  9. eat one's heart
  10. eat one's heart out
  11. eat one's own

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