put someone's light out

English

Verb

put someone's light out (third-person singular simple present puts someone's light out, present participle putting someone's light out, simple past and past participle put someone's light out)

1. (slang) To kill someone.

Related terms

• punch someone's lights out

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary: "Any one threatening to murder another says, “I'll put your light out,” or any one committing suicide is said to “put his own light out”."