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Alan Evangelista
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I have heard the following sentence in the TV series Marseille (S01E06@2:45) :

  • Les keufs à mort! Cassez-vous!

Context: Some members of a gang in a violent neighborhood are talking. Suddenly, two guys appear in a moto, yelling the sentence above and shooting upwards. The intention is to warn everybody that the police are coming.

I know that "keuf" means "cop", but what does "à mort" mean in this context? I have seen in Wiktionary that it can mean "very" in some contexts, but that does not make sense here.

I have heard the following sentence in the TV series Marseille:

  • Les keufs à mort! Cassez-vous!

Context: Some members of a gang in a violent neighborhood are talking. Suddenly, two guys appear in a moto, yelling the sentence above and shooting upwards. The intention is to warn everybody that the police are coming.

I know that "keuf" means "cop", but what does "à mort" mean in this context? I have seen in Wiktionary that it can mean "very" in some contexts, but that does not make sense here.

I have heard the following sentence in the TV series Marseille (S01E06@2:45) :

  • Les keufs à mort! Cassez-vous!

Context: Some members of a gang in a violent neighborhood are talking. Suddenly, two guys appear in a moto, yelling the sentence above and shooting upwards. The intention is to warn everybody that the police are coming.

I know that "keuf" means "cop", but what does "à mort" mean in this context? I have seen in Wiktionary that it can mean "very" in some contexts, but that does not make sense here.

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Alan Evangelista
Alan Evangelista
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Les keufs à mort

I have heard the following sentence in the TV series Marseille:

  • Les keufs à mort! Cassez-vous!

Context: Some members of a gang in a violent neighborhood are talking. Suddenly, two guys appear in a moto, yelling the sentence above and shooting upwards. The intention is to warn everybody that the police are coming.

I know that "keuf" means "cop", but what does "à mort" mean in this context? I have seen in Wiktionary that it can mean "very" in some contexts, but that does not make sense here.