dirt nap

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dirt nap

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First attested in 1981; dirt (alluding to a dead person’s burial in the earth) + nap (euphemistic in a manner somewhat like with put to sleep but jocular via dark humor).

noun dirt naps

slang A state of permanent rest; the state of death. You go in there without enough men, you’re liable to end up takin’ a dirt nap.
Similar: quietus, the big sleep, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, demise, dirt nap

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noun (irreverent term for) eternal rest, death

Русский	ве́чный сон véčnyj son, сме́рть smértʹ

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@misc{dirt_nap_2026,
  title = {dirt nap},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dirt%20nap},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}