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Killer
Definitions
- 1 Excellent, very good, cool. slang
"killer feature"
- 2 Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
"killer bee"
- 3 Distressing, uncomfortable.
"I had a killer headache this morning."
- 1 One who or that which kills. countable, uncountable
"There’s a killer on the loose."
- 2 predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas wordnet
- 3 That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"That test was a killer."
- 4 a difficulty that is hard to deal with wordnet
- 5 Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"Digital streaming platforms are CD killers."
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- 6 someone who causes the death of a person or animal wordnet
- 7 A remarkably impressive person or thing. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"Picture perfect, you don't need no filter / Gorgeous, make 'em drop dead, you're a killer"
- 8 the causal agent resulting in death wordnet
- 9 A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players. uncountable
- 10 Ellipsis of killer whale. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
"There is, however, one species of whale that habitually preys upon other warm-blooded animals—the killer whale. Really a large dolphin, the killer was classified by Linnaeus as Orcinus orca, and by Cope as Grampus rectipinna."
- 11 A club used for killing fish. countable, uncountable
- 12 A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp. countable, uncountable
- 13 Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”). countable, uncountable
"In the course of its adaptation to non-Indo-Aryan languages, the Burmese script has acquired some features that distinguish it from other Indic scripts. The killer, or virama, participates in some common constructions that would be clumsy to handle the way they would be in the other Indic scripts, so the control function of the virama is separated from the diacritic function of the killer. The virama, 0F4D is used to form conjunct consonants, while the killer, 0F52, is a simple diacritic and has no effect on character shaping. The killer is also combined with the VOWEL SIGN O (0F4B) to form the low level tone vowel “o.” When used this way, this symbol is known as hyei hto, or “thrust forward.”"
Etymology
From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er.
From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er.
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