number one with a bullet

English

Etymology

See with a bullet.

Adjective

number one with a bullet (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Superlative; impossible to beat.
   • 2005, Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley (lyrics and music), “Sugar, We're Goin Down”, performed by Fall Out Boy:

     We're going down, down in an earlier round / And sugar, we're going down swinging / I'll be your number one with a bullet / A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

   • 2009, Bruce Swedien, Make Mine Music:

     I'm sure primitive man was drumming away and rattling things to make musically pleasing sounds, but then and now the human voice was, and is, number one with a bullet.