stop lead

English

Verb

stop lead (third-person singular simple present stops lead, present participle stopping lead, simple past and past participle stopped lead)

1. (US, slang, dated) To be killed by a bullet from a gun.
   • 1935, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, page 37:

     It don't never rain in this damned country and you'll stop lead or stretch rope if you keeps shootin' cattle.