suicides

Noun

suicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)

1. (uncountable) The act of intentionally killing oneself.
   • As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.1838 January 27, Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions
2. (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing oneself, or of multiple people doing so.
   • There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.1919, Edgar Wallace, chapter 14, in The Secret House
3. (countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.
   • "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 95, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   an hero, autocide, self-killer, self-murderer, self-slayer, suicidee, suicider, suicidist

4. (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death may not be the aim of the action.
   • political suicide
5. (US, countable, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
   • You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding...1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 34

   Synonyms:

   graveyard, swamp water

6. A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.

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