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Dirt nap

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A state of permanent rest; the state of death. slang

    "You go in there without enough men, you’re liable to end up takin’ a dirt nap."

Etymology

First attested in 1981; dirt (alluding to a dead person’s burial in the earth) + nap (euphemistic in a manner somewhat like with put to sleep but jocular via dark humor).

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