coffin

Definition

  • noun: a box in which a dead person is buried
  • noun: a box or chest for burying a corpse
  • verb: to enclose in or as if in a coffin
  • synonyms: basket, box, casket

Examples

  • Every mistake is one more 'nail in the coffin' of his professional baseball career.

  • The lawyers put another 'nail in her coffin' today.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Take this. And now I've got to turn my back on you. Thirty-two hundred bucks. That is what he gave me. $ for a lifetime. It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin. - We got to get out. - I don't want to run. Am I supposed to pick up and leave everything? Go hiding? I don't want to do that. (..)
    1990 Goodfellas
  • (..) It was among the Italians. It was real grease-ball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face... ... so his mother couldn't give him an open-coffin at the funeral. I had a busy day. I had to drop the guns off at Jimmy's... ... to match some silencers he had. I had to pick up my brother (..)
    1990 Goodfellas