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To maim someone's brain in a surreptitious attempt to silence and/or discredit them.

"Case" refers to the main character in Neuromancer, the book on which the Matrix was based. In Neuromancer, Case is poisoned by former crime bosses to give him symptoms of ALS, so that he can never use computers again.
1) The government didn't appreciate the attention he brought to the NSA's surveillance, so they cased him with bedbug poison.

2) I really don't know what happened to him. One week he was fine and the next he could barely carry on a conversation. I think he got cased by his CIA handler.
case by william gibson February 1, 2014
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Person 1- You know that 'Case' on the 200th block
Person 2- Yeah they be movin pounds a day nobody can touch them.
case by Big _ E June 7, 2010
Black slang for having to go to court. Can also be used for picking up STDs.
Nigga, I gotta go to cou't on Monday, cuz I be catchin' cases.
case by M. Broman April 15, 2003
to kill
you know like put in a casket, hence case.
man i'm gonna case that bastard if he fucks with my girl again.
case by stevedem June 13, 2008
1. 24 Beers in a Carton/Case.
2. To intensely 'suss' something out.
1. "We got a case and chilled out watchin' the footy."
2. "We had to case the joint before we pulled the bankjob, to 'suss-out' the security they had."
Case by Diego September 4, 2003
A wingnut. Someone stuck in circular "reasoning".
Jerry thinks his girlfriend has aliens spying on him night and day. Jerry's a friggin' case.
case by roger the fabricator February 17, 2004
kill, harm, hurt, beat-up, etc..
case by holla_back_at_me March 1, 2004