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To die, perish, be defeated, or suffer catastrophic failure.
"My faithful old laptop finally bit the dust after seven years of continuous coding."
"Several heavily hyped startups bit the dust during the economic downturn."
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An ancient warrior metaphor dating to Homer's Iliad ("falling face-first into the dirt in combat"), popularized in English by 18th-century Scottish novels and American Western lore.
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