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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(military slang, now historical) Finished, dead, no more, gone; non-existent..
What shall I do? / My poor old dug-out is napoo.
“[…] It seems scrounging for fuel ’ad reached such a pitch in the village […] But our washing ’ad to be done, ’an I thought if I got the whole of this football team scrounging they might find something as everyone else ’ad overlooked.[…]” / “‘Very well,’ says I, ‘San fairy ann. Napoo washing—napoo ball.’[…]”
One afternoon the corps was due to shift, so that morning the cook said to the Turco, giving him his farewell tin: 'Oh la, la, Johnny, napoo pozzy tomorrow.'
The war was napoo, fini, and the Rhine the end of the journey.
‘Hey, Bill, where′s Charles?’ / ‘Napoo.’ / ‘What?’ / ‘Yes. He was out on a listening post and lit a cigarette. Sniper got him.’
He will napoo the rations.
1984, John Masters, Man of War, 1984, US title High Command, page 230, “No,” Merton said shortly. “We sit tight, they find us. If we both go wandering about looking for each other in the middle of the night, we′ll start a battle and the whole plan for tomorrow will be napooed.”
“The general says that if you are wise you will leave before the cannons come. Otherwise you′ll get ‘napooed,’ ” and he made an expressive gesture. “Compris?”
Use napoo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Napoo means (military slang, now historical) Finished, dead, no more, gone; non-existent..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
What shall I do? / My poor old dug-out is napoo.
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