Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic US informal euphemistic English) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
WordNet
v. die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket" [syn: kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it]
Usage examples of "buy the farm".
His mother supplied the money to buy the farm and to build the big square house upon it.
Fact is, I think I c'n buy the farm this fall, if you'll give me a reasonable show.
But if it happens, remember this: we didn't buy the farm killing dogfaces-we didn't die gutting little girls who live too close to a bombed-out power plant.
Go to Washington, sign the contract, make the fortune, and then come back and buy the farm.
If I buy the farm here on Plattner's World, Huber thought as he walked toward the open door of Major Steuben's office, they're going to have to name this the Lieutenant Arne C.
Bite the big one, go out for a Burton, snuff it, buy the farm, take the Black Hole Express.
But you'd better know your aircraft identification or you're going to make a pair of little old silver-haired mother damn sad if my co-pilot and I buy the farm.