(idiom, UK, Australia) A large, regular purchase of groceries; as opposed to ad hoc or impulse purchases.
(idiom, UK, Australia) A large, regular purchase of groceries; as opposed to ad hoc or impulse purchases.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, Irish) A shop selling household groceries, toys, etc, that are typically priced at a pound each.
A darkly humorous American slang phrase meaning to die — framing death as the ultimate, unavoidable final purchase, the one big transaction from which there's no return or refund. It belongs to a long tradition of death euphemisms that use commercial or transactional language to soften or joke about mortality. You're most likely to hear it in a wry, resigned context rather than as a serious expression of grief.
(US) Of or relating to a very large retail establishment built as a massive, free-standing structure.
(intransitive) To shop for groceries.