slip one's wind

English

Etymology

An allusion to the person no longer breathing.

Verb

slip 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)

1. (slang) To die.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 277:

     “Hullo!” says Troke, running to the heap of clothes, “the young un's slipped his wind!” Kirkland was dead.