Usually means: Die, often in military context.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. buy the farm: Merriam-Webster
  2. buy the farm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buy the farm: Vocabulary.com
  4. buy the farm: Wiktionary
  5. buy the farm: Dictionary.com
  6. buy the farm: Rhymezone
  7. buy the farm: FreeDictionary.org
  8. buy the farm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. Buy the Farm: The Word Detective
  10. buy the farm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buy the farm: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buy the farm: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buy the farm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. buy the farm: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (buy the farm)

verb:  (idiomatic, US, informal, euphemistic) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.

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