1. Be killed or die
   "He bought it in the line of duty";
   - pip out [informal]

Derived forms: buying it, bought it, buys it

Type of: buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], cash in [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], conk [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], croak [informal], decease [archaic], die, drop dead [informal], exit, expire, flatline [informal], give up the ghost [informal], go, kick the bucket [informal], pass, pass away, pass on, perish, pop off [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], snuff it [informal]