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CASH IN ONE'S CHIPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cash in one's chips mean? 

CASH IN ONE'S CHIPS (verb)
  The verb CASH IN ONE'S CHIPS has 1 sense:

1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain lifeplay

  Familiarity information: CASH IN ONE'S CHIPS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CASH IN ONE'S CHIPS (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

expire; snuff it; pop off; perish; pass away; pass; kick the bucket; go; give-up the ghost; buy the farm; exit; drop dead; die; decease; croak; conk; choke; cash in one's chips

Context example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Hypernyms (to "cash in one's chips" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cash in one's chips"):

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


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