Meanings
verbslip one's wind (third-person singular simple present slips one's wind, present participle slipping one's wind, simple past and past participle slipped one's wind)
present singular third person slips one's wind · participle present slipping one's wind · participle past slipped one's wind · past slipped one's wind
- slangTo die.
“Hullo!” says Troke, running to the heap of clothes, “the young un's slipped his wind!” Kirkland was dead.
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 277
Origin
An allusion to the person no longer breathing.
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