SUICIDAL, SUICIDE
ADJECTIVES
1755 — SUICIDICAL suicidal → obs.
NOUNS
1692 — SELFCIDE an act of killing oneself; suicide → obs.
1751 — SUICISM suicide → obs.
1856 — HAPPY DISPATCH Englishmen’s term for hara-kiri; suicide by disembowelment, as formerly practised by the higher classes in Japan when in circumstances of disgrace, or under sentence of death
1856 — HARA-KIRI suicide by disembowelment, as formerly practised by the higher classes in Japan when in circumstances of disgrace, or under sentence of death
1871 — JUNSHI in Japan: suicide at the death of one’s lord, self-immolation
1910 — RASH ACT suicide → Aust. sl.
1942 — SIDEWAYS suicide → NZ prison & US students’ weak rhyming sl.
1949 — CURE suicide → US sl.
1984 — NIGHT TRAIN suicide → US sl.
1984 — SIDEWAYS TRIP a suicide in prison → US sl.
1990 — EARLY PAROLE suicide → Aust. prison sl.
1991 — AUTOPHONOMANIA an obsession with suicide (Bk.)
2002 — FAILURE TO FLY a tag applied to failed suicides → UK medical sl.
2006 — THE DUTCH ACT suicide → US sl. (Bk.)
2006 — THE DUTCH CURE suicide → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1635 — AUTOCIDE a self-destroyer; a person who commits suicide → obs.
1943 — SUICIDER a suicide
1954 — LEAPER a person who threatens to or actually does jump to their death → US sl.
1982 — QUITTER a suicide → US sl.
2001 — SHEET JUMPER one who commits suicide by hanging → NZ prison sl.
VERBS
1175 — MURDER to commit suicide → arch.
1718 — TOP to execute by hanging; to kill; to commit suicide → sl.
1892 — DIE QUEER to commit suicide → Eng. dial.
..L19 — DO A BRODIE — TAKE A BRODIE to commit suicide → sl.
..20C — TAKE THE DUTCH ROUTE to commit suicide → US prison sl.
..20C — DO ONESELF IN to commit suicide → sl.
..20C — TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT to commit suicide → sl.
1902 — DO A DUTCH to commit suicide → sl., orig. US
1902 — DO THE DUTCH ACT to commit suicide → sl., orig. US
1910 — GREASE THE RAILS to be run over by a train; to commit suicide by throwing oneself on the railway tracks → US sl.
1927 — DO AWAY WITH (ONESELF) to kill deliberately; to commit suicide → sl.
1930 — DERRICK to execute or suicide by hanging → Amer. dial.
1951 — TAKE THE GAS PIPE to commit suicide → Amer. dial.
1960 — CHUCK IT — CHUCK IT IN — CHUCK IT UP to commit suicide → US students’ sl.
1960 — TAKE GAS to kill oneself by any method → sl.
1960 — TAKE ONESELF OUT to commit suicide → US sl.
1962 — TAKE THE PIPE to commit suicide → Amer. dial.
1965 — GO SIDEWAYS to commit suicide → Amer. dial.
1966 — COMMIT SIDEWAYS to commit suicide → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1966 — KICK SUE IN THE SIDE — KICK SUZY IN THE SIDE to commit suicide → Amer. dial.
1967 — CASH IN ONE’S CHIPS to commit suicide → Amer. sl.
1967 — NECK to kill oneself by hanging → Aust. sl.
1974 — TAKE THE BIG DIVE to commit suicide → US sl.
1975 — BLOW ONE’S CORK to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S LUMP to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S NOGGIN to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S ROOF to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S STACK to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S TOP to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S TOPPER to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — BLOW ONE’S WIG to commit suicide → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — EAT ONE’S GUN — EAT THE GUN to commit suicide by shooting oneself with the barrel of the gun inserted in the mouth → US police usage
1978 — DRINK THE KOOL-AID to commit suicide → US
1978 — HIT THE CAN to die; to commit suicide → US sl.
1981 — GO OFF THE BARS to commit suicide by hanging → Aust. prison sl.. (Bk.)
1981 — PULL THE PLUG to commit suicide → sl.
1989 — TAKE IT TO THE VENT to commit suicide → US sl.
1990 — FALL ON ONE’S SWORD to commit suicide, esp. after a defeat and for the good of the general cause → Amer. sl.
1990 — JUMP OFF THE PORCH to commit suicide → sl.
1992 — CHECK OUT to commit suicide while in prison → US sl.
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