1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / B / Bullet. [p. 14]
When a workman is discharged without notice he is said to have “got the bullet.” Sometimes it is used when he receives notice to leave in the usual manner.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.