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Killer   /kˈɪlər/   Listen
Killer

noun
1.
Someone who causes the death of a person or animal.  Synonym: slayer.
2.
The causal agent resulting in death.  Synonym: cause of death.
3.
A difficulty that is hard to deal with.
4.
Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.  Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf.



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"Killer" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Arthuric legends) Britain was inhabited only by a few giants. Now if you had met giants with one head, and also giants with seven heads, and no others, you would have had a right to say, "There are two breeds of giants here, one-headed and seven-headed." But if you had found, as Jack the Giant-Killer (who belongs to the same old cycle of myths) appears to have found, two-headed giants also, and three-headed, and giants, indeed, with any reasonable number of heads, would you not have been justified in saying, "They are all of the same ...
— Town Geology • Charles Kingsley

... he escapes—become a professional killer. My dear chap, you forget. She's used to decent people. It makes all the difference in the world." Pell turned away, lest the hard look should return to ...
— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne

... "By a professional killer; the larynx has been cut above the glottis, and with the same stroke the two carotid arteries, with the jugular veins. As the assassin had to raise the head, the victim was not able to cry out; considerable ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... that was here left it for a sample,' says Hoppy. 'Wanted me to try it and, if I liked it, he cal'lated maybe I'd buy some. I don't think I shall, though,' he says; 'don't taste right to me.' Yes, sir, Jim Young swears that's true. Wan't enough snake-killer in that hair tonic to suit Hoppy. I—Yes, Cap'n Lote, what is it? ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... be offensive. The game of Squash Tennis has known many so-called "great getters," but they invariably have succumbed to "purposeful power" and the aggressively angled shots of players with the burning desire to win, "the killer instinct" that spurs the great players to go all out for ...
— Squash Tennis • Richard C. Squires


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