bite the curb

English

Verb

bite the curb (third-person singular simple present bites the curb, present participle biting the curb, simple past bit the curb, past participle bitten the curb)

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To be curb stomped.

   Watch out those crazy skinheads! They made someone bite the curb the other night.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bite,‎ the,‎ curb.
   • 2013 November 12, Shehu Sani, Hatred for Black People, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 348:

     Having someone bite the curb and kicking him in the back of the head is a painful way to kill someone. Often, as in the movie American History X, it is used as punishment for insubordinate blacks.

   • 1911, Martin Christinius Grimsgaard, Original Handbook for Riders: A Complete Guide to Modern Horsemanship:

     If the horse be in the bad habit of taking the arms of the curb-bit between his teeth (bite the curb), a small strap (lip-strap) may be placed between the arms and through the extra ring on the curb-chain.