bump off

verb

bumped off; bumping off; bumps off

transitive verb

: to murder casually or cold-bloodedly

Synonyms

• assassinate
• croak [slang]
• dispatch
• do in
• execute
• get
• ice [slang]
• knock off
• liquidate
• murder
• neutralize
• off [slang]
• put away
• rub out
• slay
• snuff
• take out
• terminate
• whack [slang]

Examples of bump off in a Sentence

these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way

Recent Examples on the Web

Miller was bumped off the top power-play unit in favour of Jonathan Lekkerimäki. —Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025

Yes, but: Newlyweds Jackie and Rachel Robinson were bumped off two flights from Los Angeles to Florida to allow white passengers to have their seats, Rachel Robinson told NPR in 2010. —Russell Contreras, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025

That’s a tough pill to swallow for a lot of GOP members, many of whom are reeling from watching Gov. Greg Abbott (R) bump off longtime allies who differed with him on school vouchers. —Saul Elbein, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2025

As was the case with July's Republican National Convention, DNC nightly schedules are usually only released the day of and are subject to changes throughout the night, and the Tennessee Three's bump off the schedule is not unusual. —Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 22 Aug. 2024

And the American women were, plainly, awful for the first 20 minutes, kicking the ball all over creation, getting bumped off their spots on the floor regularly and losing the energy battle to the ferocious French defenders. —David Aldridge, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024

The camera follows the dog into a retro tiled bathroom, where Elizabeth Berkley is sitting in a shell-pink bathtub wearing a matching silk robe cutting grotesque black bumps off of her leg. —Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024

So, when people describe the Fed as driving a car through a tunnel with a windshield painted black, guiding itself with the rearview mirrors, oil demand forecasting is more like feeling your way bumping off the walls. —Michael Lynch, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

In serendipitous fashion, my husband and I met at JFK Airport as students when we were both bumped off a flight bound for Los Angeles. —Allison Tibaldi, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bump off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff