shoot me

English

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Interjection

shoot me

  1. Expression of dismay, where the speaker is expressing, metaphorically, their wish to die because events (for them) are so bad.

Usage notes

This phrase can also be used with the ironic meaning 'kill me, I am to blame', equivalent to the Latin phrase mea culpa. It is chiefly a US English phrase made popular in the last decade or so. Compare also sue me.

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