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put to bed with a shovel

put to bed with a shovel verb: to bury (someone).

Verb

put to bed with a shovel (third-person singular simple present puts to bed with a shovel, present participle putting to bed with a shovel, simple past and past participle put to bed with a shovel)

  1. (slang, transitive, cynical) To bury (someone).

Forms of put to bed with a shovel

third-person singular presentputs to bed with a shovel
present participleputting to bed with a shovel
past participleput to bed with a shovel
pastput to bed with a shovel

Questions about put to bed with a shovel

What does put to bed with a shovel mean?
Put to bed with a shovel means to bury (someone).
What part of speech is put to bed with a shovel?
Put to bed with a shovel is a verb.
What is the past tense of put to bed with a shovel?
The past tense of put to bed with a shovel is put to bed with a shovel.

Words near put to bed with a shovel in the dictionary

  1. put through the mill
  2. put through the wringer
  3. put throughs
  4. put to
  5. put to bed
  6. put to bed with a shovel
  7. put to death
  8. put to good account
  9. put to good use
  10. put to lie
  11. put to rest

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