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with a bullet

a. (context of a hit record English) that has entered the charts in a high position, or has climbed rapidly in the charts, or is thought to have the potential for further rapid advancement

Usage examples of "with a bullet".

Simon may have sucked as a lead singer, but as 'the Black Spirit' he's number one with a bullet.

The Renamo who had been torturing his prisoner paused only to dispatch the maimed victim with a bullet in the back of the neck before hurrying t o Sean's bidding.

Not twenty-four hours after his last talk with Duane, in which he advised quick action, he was found behind the little bar of his restaurant with a bullet-hole in his breast, dead.

The man dropped with a bullet through his head, but Orvid had less luck with Fat Laura.

He fired four times, and the one with the pitchfork spun and fell with a bullet in his thigh.

The Belgian police have just reported finding a body with a bullet hole in the head, stuck on top of a Ferris wheel.

He raised the Bowen, intending to finish Boris off with a bullet between the mad, staring eyes, but without warning his arms were pinioned by his sides.

Among the Gendarmerie personnel, only Colonel Ballon was hurt with a bullet in the shoulder.

Ryan was half a heartbeat from chilling him with a bullet through the back of the skull, but the man hawked and spit a green ball of phlegm to the side of the trail.

Ryan sighted on the man carrying the rocket launcher and put him down with a bullet between his shoulder blades that ripped through the front of his chest.

One stickie hurled his ax spinning high in the air as he went down, with a bullet through his left eye, the blade sticking among the upper branches of a Douglas fir.

If you hadn't taken those two out, I might've ended up with a bullet in my back.

They found the sniper with a bullet right in the middle of the forehead.

Moreover he lay in a slight dip with the body of the horse in front of him, and it would require an uncommon sharpshooter to reach him with a bullet.

Come out in the light, an' I'll let some sense into you with a bullet.