Urban Dictionary: circling the bowl

v. On its way out.
adj. In trouble, doomed, finished.

Ebay's stock is at $30. That turd is circling the bowl.

by keyshaw April 26, 2005

Paramedics sometimes use this term (among each other) when a patient is about read to die or is dying.

Wasn't much I could do given the three gsw's (gun shot wounds) to his upper thorax, that dude was circling the bowl even before we arrived on scene.

by Fudge911 December 10, 2009