Meaning of shoot through | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, through.
2. To leave.
   Australia, New-Zealand, informal
3. To die.
   Australia, New-Zealand, informal

Examples

“A mostly novelized story shot through with some factual names and dates.”

“He did not mind the new store, but when some stirrer said that there was a motel coming, he shot through to find a better hole further inland, muttering that 'the place is getting as big as one of them southern city places!’”

“He shoots through to Australia, and I'm left with the kid.”

“But on learning it was twins he shot through to Queensland into – I later discovered – the waiting arms of his lover.”

“What Father Nelson must have made of our all-too-candid (and slightly embellished) responses is anybody's guess, but it wasn't long before he shot through to New Guinea to work as a missionary with the kind of tribesmen who wear penis gourds.”

“Play your didgeridoo, Blue / Play your didgeridoo / Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot through, Blue / Play your didgeridoo”

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