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Bite the big one

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die. slang

    "Fly, be free! Well, I guess we'll have to have a quick burial at sea then. I'll notify your next of kin. Your brother bit the big one."

  2. 2
    To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing. slang

    "Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ..."

  3. 3
    To perform poorly; to fail. idiomatic

    "Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States."

  4. 4
    To be unpleasant or undesirable. slang

    "To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked."

  5. 5
    To perform fellatio. slang

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