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darwin out

C1 slang inseparable intransitive
In simple words

To get removed from a situation (or hurt/killed) because you did something very stupid — like natural selection.

Meanings

1 C1 idiomatic slang

(Dark humour/internet slang) To be eliminated — usually through injury, death, or failure — as a result of one's own extreme stupidity or recklessness, evoking the idea of natural selection removing unfit individuals.

"Anyone who tries to selfie on the edge of that cliff is going to darwin out sooner or later."

Grammar: inseparable
Usage notes

Derived from 'Darwin Award', an ironic internet concept celebrating people who eliminate themselves through extreme stupidity. Used darkly humorously. Not appropriate in formal or sensitive contexts. Primarily internet and youth slang, global English.

Commonly used with

completely himself themselves eventually inevitably

Forms

Base
darwin out
I/you/we/they
3rd person
darwins out
he/she/it
Past simple
darwined out
yesterday
Past participle
darwined out
have + pp
-ing form
darwining out
continuous

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