get the bullet

Verb

Meaning

get the bullet (third-person singular simple present gets the bullet, present participle getting the bullet, simple past got the bullet, past participle got the bullet or gotten the bullet)

(slang) To be fired from one's employment.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have. Ralph Abernathy

Close letter words and terms

get the blaze out get the boot get the bulge on get the call get the chop get the cream