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Meaning of bite the big one | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. To die.
    slang
  2. To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing.
    slang
  3. To perform poorly; to fail.
    idiomatic
  4. To be unpleasant or undesirable.
    slang
  5. To perform fellatio.
    slang

Examples

“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.”
“"I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."”
“Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...”
“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.”
“To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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