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Buy it

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die. euphemistic, slang

    "He bought it in a shootout."

  2. 2
    be killed or die wordnet
  3. 3
    To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it. idiomatic, slang

    "He claims that he'll pay me back, but I don't buy it."

Etymology

* In the die sense, apparently attested since the 1820s, thus earlier than the variant buy the farm, which may be an extension of it. * In the have it sense, an elliptical allusion to believing a sales pitch.

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