suck the kumara

English

Etymology

Presumably because both a buried corpse and a kumara (“sweet potato”) are found under the earth.

Pronunciation

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Verb

suck the kumara (third-person singular simple present sucks the kumara, present participle sucking the kumara, simple past and past participle sucked the kumara)

  1. (New Zealand, slang, idiomatic) To die.

Synonyms

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