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(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.

* 1904 , , The Man On The Box , ch. 22:

The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.

* {{quote-news, year=2012

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(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.

* 1919 , , The Secret House , ch. 14:

There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.

* 1999 , Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion , Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0978-9, page 192:

In this way the community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.

(countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.

* 1915 , , Of Human Bondage , ch. 95:

"I remember one suicide ," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."

(figuratively) An action which could have the literal or figurative death of a person or organization as its consequence, although death is not the aim of the action.

* 1959 , , in the Congressional Record , Feb. 9, page 2100:^{[http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_emd_quotes.htm]}

I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

* 2000 , Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit (ISBN 0446525871):

“Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”

* 2004 , Robert D. Lock, Job Search: Career Planning Guide (ISBN 0534574211), page 24:

it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.

(countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.

* 1994 , Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0, page 34:

You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide , and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.

* 2000 , , For God, Country and Coca-Cola , Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05468-4, page 15:

Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.

(countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.

The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.

A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.