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vb. (en-pastbite the dust)
Usage examples of "bit the dust".
He swung his golden cudgel, andbong-bong-bong one by one die lamas bit the dust.
This infuriated me, because I seen he had no intention of fighting fair, so I tore a log out of the wall of the mayor's cabin and belted him over the ear with it, and Cousin Bearfield bit the dust.
But at the same moment one of Whiskers' assailants bit the dust, blood spraying from his chest.
His own weapons started blazing and a row of the nearest Indians bit the dust messily.
On the terminal before him, several invading Tholian warships bit the dust in a computer-generated blaze of glory.
The form survived in the formal German script Fraktur until Fraktur itself bit the dust after World War II.
Look at how many of Corky's boys have already bit the dust in the last month.
Legions of theorists bit the dust trying to explain this untidy evidence in terms of the decay of the vacuum or by some tortured version of the old Bondi-Gold hypothesis.