duppy

Meanings

Plural: duppies

Noun

• A ghost or spirit, often appearing in the form of a dog barking or howling through the night.
• A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).

Verb

• To kill; to murder.
• To excel in.

Synonyms

annihilate, apparition, bag, baptize, barghest, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, duppy, dust, eidolon, eliminate, empuse, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, ghost, grease, haint, haunt, jumbie, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, phantom, pick off, polish off, poltergeist, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, ravage, revenant, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, shade, slaughter, slay, smash, smite, snuff, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top, top off, torpedo, visitant, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wraith, wreck