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put someone's light out

put someone's light out verb: to kill someone.

Verb

put someone's light out (third-person singular simple present puts someone's light out, present participle putting someone's light out, simple past and past participle put someone's light out)

  1. (slang) To kill someone.

Forms of put someone's light out

third-person singular presentputs someone's light out
present participleputting someone's light out
past participleput someone's light out
pastput someone's light out

Questions about put someone's light out

What does put someone's light out mean?
Put someone's light out means to kill someone.
What part of speech is put someone's light out?
Put someone's light out is a verb.
What is the past tense of put someone's light out?
The past tense of put someone's light out is put someone's light out.

Words near put someone's light out in the dictionary

  1. put someone through their paces
  2. put someone to their trumps
  3. put someone under the screw
  4. put someone wise
  5. put someone's back up
  6. put someone's light out
  7. put someone's lights out
  8. put someone's pipe out
  9. put something behind one
  10. put something down to experience
  11. put something into perspective

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