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One's undoing, in slang
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kryptonite
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Kryptonite is the name of a story arc written by Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale that appeared in Superman Confidential ; a monthly series that was published from January 2007 and then later cancelled on April 2008 that told stories set in the character's early ...
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n. The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fictional substance in the "Superman" series, where it weakens the otherwise invulnerable hero, 1943; perhaps from elements of krypton (which is a gas) + meteorite .
Usage examples of kryptonite.
They would find, as they always did, that no boltcutter in the world had jaws that opened wide enough to cut through a Kryptonite lock.
Even the lock looked like a piece of shit: a Kryptonite lock all scarred up by boltcutters.
But we can expose the test tube of seminal fluid to gold kryptonite, then use standard techniques for artificial insemination.
More affectionate nicknames would soon follow: Rock, Kryptonite, Kibbles ’n Bits, Scrabble, and Love.
For smokeable cocaine: Base, Ball, Beat, Bisquits, Bones, Boost, Boulders, Brick, Bump, Cakes, Casper, Chalk, Cookies, Crumbs, Cubes, Fatbags, Freebase, Gravel, Hardball, Hell, Kibbles n’ Bits, Kryptonite, Love, Moonrocks, Nuggets, Onion, Pebbles, Piedras, Piece, Ready Rock, Roca, Rock(s), Rock Star, Scotty, Scrabble, Smoke House, Stones, Teeth, Tornado.
More affectionate nicknames would soon follow: Rock, Kryptonite, Kibbles 'n Bits, Scrabble, and Love.
For smokeable cocaine: Base, Ball, Beat, Bisquits, Bones, Boost, Boulders, Brick, Bump, Cakes, Casper, Chalk, Cookies, Crumbs, Cubes, Fatbags, Freebase, Gravel, Hardball, Hell, Kibbles n' Bits, Kryptonite, Love, Moonrocks, Nuggets, Onion, Pebbles, Piedras, Piece, Ready Rock, Roca, Rock(s), Rock Star, Scotty, Scrabble, Smoke House, Stones, Teeth, Tornado.
But too little kryptonite may allow the child to damage her, while too much may damage or kill the child.