English

Alternative forms

• just shoot me

Interjection

shoot me!

1. Expression of dismay, where the speaker is expressing, metaphorically, his/her wish to die because events (for him/her) are so bad.

Usage notes

This phrase can also be used with the ironic meaning 'kill me, I am to blame', equivalent to the Latin phrase mea culpa. It is chiefly a US English phrase made popular in the last decade or so.

Anagrams

• mooeths
• smoothe