What is "killer"

Killer \Kill"er\, n.

1. One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known; called also killer whale.

   Note: The killers have a high dorsal fin, and powerful jaws armed with large, sharp teeth. They capture, and swallow entire, large numbers of seals, porpoises, and dolphins, and are celebrated for their savage, combined attacks upon the right whales, which they are said to mutilate and kill. The common Atlantic species ( Orca gladiator), is found both on the European and the American coast. Two species ( Orca ater and Orca rectipinna) occur on the Pacific coast.

late 15c., agent noun from kill (v.). But a surname, Ric[hard] Le Kyller is attested from 1288. Figurative use from 1550s. Meaning "impressive person or thing" is by 1900 (as an adjective, 1979); reduplicated form killer-diller attested by 1938. Killer whale is from 1725; killer instinct is attested from 1931, originally in boxing.

a. 1 (context slang English) excellent, very good. 2 Causing death, destruction, or obliteration. n. 1 That which kills. 2 (context figuratively English) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task. 3 (context figuratively English) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition. 4 (context sports English) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players. 5 A diacritic mark used in Indic scripts to suppress an inherent vowel (e.g., the Hindi viram, the Bengali or Oriya hasanta) or render the entire syllable silent (e.g., the Burmese virama, the Khmer toandakhiat).

1. n. someone who causes the death of a person or animal [syn: slayer]

2. the causal agent resulting in death; "heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States" [syn: cause of death]

3. a difficulty that is hard to deal with; "that exam was a real killer"

4. predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas [syn: killer whale, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca]

A killer is someone or something that kills, such as a murderer or a contract killer.

Killer may also refer to:

Killer was a rock band founded in 1999 in Helsinki, Finland. Although Killer was a quartet, vocalist Siiri Nordin was by far the most visible member. Notable were the different music styles that influenced their tracks: Siiri grew up with jazz & blues but the influences of the band included grunge pioneers such as Pearl Jam & Nirvana (Timo), electronic music (guitarist Tumppi) and even funk & folk (drummer Teijo, who used to earn a living in a folk-based outfit).

The group's debut single Hurricane was released in February 2001. In August 2001 the debut was followed up by All I Want – a track that topped the local airplay list and made it to No. 2 on the charts, moving the band's debut album 'Sickeningly Pretty And Unpleasantly Vain' up to gold.

Their second album, Sure You Know How To Drive This Thing was internationally released in 2003 and entered the Finnish charts on position 7. Sure You Know How To Drive This Thing includes the song Naughty Boy which became the band's biggest hit. The song was one of the most played songs on Finnish radio during the summer of 2003; it also made it to number one on the MTV's Up North charts. One year later, Killer were invited to play at the legendary Rock am Ring festival in Germany.

On February 5, 2005, bass player Timo Huhtala announced on the band's website the group will take an "undetermined break";

As a result, Timo and Teijo formed their new band Killer Aspect, the name being a combination of the band names Killer and Personal Aspect – the former band of the guitarist.

Killer is the fourth studio album by the Alice Cooper band, released in November 1971. The album reached number 21 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and the two singles " Under My Wheels" and " Be My Lover" made the Hot 100 chart.

Cooper said in the liner notes of Fistful of Alice and In the Studio with Redbeard, which spotlighted the Killer and Love it to Death albums, that the song "Desperado" was written about his friend Jim Morrison, who died the year this album was released. According to an NPR radio interview with Alice Cooper, "Desperado" was written about Robert Vaughn's character from the movie The Magnificent Seven. " Halo of Flies" was, according to Cooper's liner notes in the compilation The Definitive Alice Cooper, an attempt by the band to prove that they could perform King Crimson-like progressive rock suites, and was supposedly about a SMERSH-like organisation. "Desperado", along with "Under My Wheels" and "Be My Lover" have appeared on different compilation albums by Cooper. The song "Dead Babies" stirred up some controversy following the album's release, despite the fact that its lyrics conveyed an "anti-child abuse" message. Musicians such as Jello Biafra and John Lydon have referred to the album as an influence.

"Killer" is a song by British acid house producer Adamski. Written by Adamski and Seal and produced by Adamski, "Killer" was Adamski's breakthrough single, but is now more notable for introducing Seal as a vocalist. A major hit in the UK, it reached number one, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May and June 1990. In total, the single sold over 400,000 copies in the UK, earning it a BPI Gold certification.

Killer is a 1998 French- Kazakhstani crime drama film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev.

"Killer" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss. Featured on their 1982 album, Creatures of the Night, the song was released as an A-side single in the United Kingdom. Although " I Love It Loud" was an A-side single in the United States, it would be relegated to the B-side in the UK. It was the first song Vinnie Vincent and Gene Simmons wrote together after the two had met. In addition to not being able to chart at all, Kiss has never performed the song live and it has only been released as a single and on all issues of the Creatures of the Night album (the song was switched places with "Saint and Sinner" on the 1985 reissue).

In 2008, the song was featured on the Vinnie Vincent tribute album KISS MY ANKH: A Tribute to Vinnie Vincent, covered by DoubleVirgo.

Killer or killers is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of "lives" and takes one shot per to attempt to a ball, or else lose a life. Usually if the player then an additional life is lost. It is a popular pub game because it can involve a potentially unlimited number of players, and offers the opportunity for each player to bet a small amount of money for a reasonable return in winner-takes-all. There are often other local subrules such as potting the , or any two balls in one shot, gives the player an extra life, or that failure to pocket a ball on the does not cost a life (in which case the shooter shoots again). The game is sometimes called killer pool.

Killer is the seventh studio album by rapper Tech N9ne. Killer's album cover pays homage to Michael Jackson’s iconic " Thriller" album cover. With Killer, Tech N9ne has SoundScanned his 1 millionth album independently.

This album was the first album Tech N9ne recorded as a double disc release, containing 32 tracks. ( Everready (The Religion) contained two discs, however the second disc was marketed as a bonus disc and not a part of the album itself.) Guests who were featured on the album include Paul Wall, Scarface, Shawnna, Brother J of X-Clan, Mistah F.A.B., Kottonmouth Kings, Hed PE, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Skatterman & Snug Brim, BG Bulletwound, Liquid Assassin of Grave Plott, and Ice Cube. While Brotha Lynch Hung was confirmed to be a guest on the album early on, he would be absent from the album in the end. It was later revealed that Brotha Lynch Hung was supposed to be on Psycho Bitch II, but he would have been unable to get his verse back to Tech in time, thus he did not appear. He was instead replaced by Grave Plott's Liquid Assassin.

It features production by producers that have previously collaborated with Tech like Michael "Seven" Summers and David Sanders II, as well as new collaborations such as with Tramaine "YoungFyre" Winfrey, Jonah "Matic Lee" Appleby and Adam " Wyshmaster" Cherrington.

On October 3rd, 2008, the music video for "Like Yeah" premiered on MTVU.com. The video was directed by Estevan Oriol and featured several cameos such as the songs producer Young Fyre, fellow label mates Krizz Kaliko and Kutt Calhoun, actor Danny Trejo, as well as artists Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., C-Bo, Glasses Malone, Krondon and Skinhead Rob.

The album debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200 with 36,199 copies sold in its first week.

In philately a killer is a particularly heavy type of handstamp consisting of heavy bars, cork impressions or other crude devices used to cancel postage stamps. Such handstamps may also be known as obliterators as the mark applied often obscures almost the whole of the stamp.

Killers were often used in the early days of stamps as the postal authorities wished to ensure that stamps could not be re-used.

In the United States this is also the name for a particular circular date stamp with four thick horizontal bars to the right. This handstamp effectively cancels the stamp while leaving the place and date information easily visible. The bars are known as killer bars.

There is no exact definition of what is, and is not, a killer cancel and the term is often used to apply to any heavy cancellation.

Killer is the sixth music-VHS and the first music-DVD by the Berlin punk rock band Die Ärzte. The 2009 DVD " Overkiller" is an expansion of that. The video is a Videoclip-accumulation.

Killer is a 1992 Telugu Action thriller film, produced by V. B. Rajendra Prasad on his Jagapathi Art Pictures and directed by Fazil. Akkineni Nagarjuna and Nagma, Sharada, Baby Shamili played the lead roles and music composed by Ilaiyaraja. The film was also dubbed into Tamil as Easwar and in Hindi as Sabse Bada Mawali.

"Killer" is the debut solo single released by British hip hop producer and rapper Fazer, also known for his work with the hip hop trio N-Dubz. Killer was taken as the lead single from his untitled debut studio album. The single was released on August 26, 2012, peaking at #17 on the UK Singles Chart. He became the only member from N-Dubz not to score a number one single with his first solo hit.

Killer was a Swiss heavy metal group founded in 1979 and based in Solothurn. The founder and leader was guitarist Crown Kocher. The group disbanded in 2012.

Killer is a Belgian heavy metal band founded in 1980. The lead guitarist is Paul Shorty Van Kamp.

Ryan Heath Rorie (August 28, 1976 – September 5, 2014) known professionally as Killer was an American drag performer known for her old Hollywood glamour, clever concepts, and razor-sharp lip syncs with Lipsinka inspired swagger.

Killer or The Killer is a nickname of:

• Pietro Aurino (born 1977), Italian former boxer
• Keegan Brown (born 1992), English darts player
• Fred Burke (1893-1940), American armed robber and contract killer
• Clive Caldwell (1910-1994), Australian World War II flying ace
• Doug Gilmour (born 1963), Canadian retired National Hockey League player
• Mack Gray (1905-1981), American actor
• Derek Hales (born 1951), English former footballer
• Kevin Kaminski (born 1969), Canadian former National Hockey League player called "Killer Kaminski"
• Arthur Kane (1949-2004), American bass guitarist for the glam rock band the New York Dolls
• Harmon Killebrew (1936–2011), American Major League Baseball player
• Jerry Lee Lewis (born 1935), American rock-and-roll and country music singer/pianist
• Katlego Mphela (born 1984), footballer