To whack, to bump off, to waste (someone); to crash/kill (a process/program), to slam/drop (an object), to blow/spend (money). Popular, high-energy verb with several distinct slang applications: 1. in criminal and street slang, it means to murder, assassinate, or eliminate someone (его грохнули в подъезде — “he was bumped off in the building entrance”); 2. in IT and tech jargon, it means to terminate a process, delete a file, or crash a system (я случайно грохнул базу данных — “I accidentally killed the database”); 3. to drop or throw something with a loud, heavy crash; 4. to waste or spend a massive amount of money on something (грохнул всю зарплату на шмотки — “he blew his entire salary on clothes”).
Дедушка должен был председателя горкома грохнуть. Но тут кто-то донёс. В самый последний момент…
Grandpa was supposed to kill the mayor. But somebody ratted on him. At the last moment…
(Александр Бондарь, Альфонс, 2003)
К вопросу о том, почему просто Пригожина не грохнут, пока он в Москве: он записал свое очередное видео-блоггерское видео, где несет некий договор в Минобороны.
As for the question of why Prigozhin is not simply taken out while he is in Moscow: he has recorded yet another of his video-blogger clips in which he is carrying some sort of contract to the Ministry of Defence.
(Майкл Наки @ t.me, 06/2023)
