waste v.
1. (orig. US milit., also waste away) to kill, to beat up (severely).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 135: Goddam if I couldn’t waste him away in two minutes off chowtime. | |
| ‘Kitty Barrett’ in et al. Life (1976) 53: She [...] Pulled her pistol and said she’d waste me if I moved a muscle at all. | |
| Felony Tank (1962) 39: If he opens his mouth, I’ll waste him. | |
| Big Easy 118: Those honkie runts were afraid Littlebit might spill things, so they wasted him. | |
| (con. 1969–70) F.N.G. (1988) 38: We wasted eight gooks in one fight. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Paydirt [ebook] ‘Fuckin’ A [...] if I fuck up you’ll waste me’. | |
| Pugilist at Rest 50: Throw it, now! Boom! Okay, step into your fire lane and waste those motherfuckers! | |
| ‘The Routine’Oz ser. 1 ep. 1 [TV script] You don’t have to worry about wasting Ortolani. He’s on self-destruct. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 37: waste v. To kill. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] Excepting the two I wasted by accident I never clocked anyone who got the big one. | |
| Handbook for Boys 11: I wasted him [...] I was so mad that when it should have been over, I kept punching him. | |
| Peepshow [ebook] You can waste the guy [...] No mess, no fuss. | |
| Our Town 268: They argued about when it would be appropriate to go out and start ‘wasting queers’. | |
| Riptide Ultra-Glide 278: ‘It’s trippy watching you waste dudes’. | |
| Joe Country [ebook] ‘If we find the woman, we’ll waste her’. | |
| Back to the Dirt 92: ‘Waste this softy son of a bitch.’ He wanted Miles to stomp Barney’s silver-spooned mouth into a stuttering paste. |
2. (US teen/street gang) to defeat, to trounce.
 | Beckley Post-Herald (WV) 1 Dec. 7/4: Waste — To defeat thoroughly. | |
| Big Rumble 29: The Scratchers come around here boppin’, they’re gonna waste you anyway, coolie or no coolie. | |
| Shaft 37: He had to get rid of it, waste it. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. | |
| Guardian Guide 9–15 Oct. 55: The hangdog hero wastes the baddies hunting him. | |
| Skins ser.1 ep.3 [TV script] They go all Hong Kong Phooey. They waste us. |
3. to get drunk or intoxicated by a drug.
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 117: I didn’t shoot up. I just wasted that stuff up my nose. | |
| Powder 418: He’d charted the drug-addled decline of James Love as though he’d been watching Jimi Hendrix waste himself in front of his very eyes. |
4. lit. or fig., to smash, to destroy.
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 16: [The ball] came in on one bounce, like it was supposed to, and slightly breaking into a curve. It was all mine. ‘Waste it, panín,’ shouted my boy Waneko. | |
| Suicide Hill 104: Bobby had shot off both guns [...] his Pendletons and all of his old Buddy Holly records got wasted. | |
| Lowspeak. | |
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 wasted [...] 2. to seriously mess up someone or something. | |
| Skins ser.1 ep.3 [TV script] My bredren’s comin' to waste you up, yeah?! They’re the biggest. | |
| Hilliker Curse 7: An alert cop [...] wasted the Main Loser’s ass. |