stop lead
English
Verb
stop lead (third-person singular simple present stops lead, present participle stopping lead, simple past and past participle stopped lead)
- (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.
- 1935, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules (page 37)