stop lead

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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.
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