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n. (plural of killer bee English)Category:English plurals
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Killer bee refers to a hybrid of the African honey bee with various European honey bees.
Killer bees or Killer B's may also refer to:
- Killer bees (business), firms or individuals employed by a target company to fend off a takeover bid
- Killer Bees (Texas Senate), a group of Texas senators, including Glenn Kothmann, who in 1979 went into hiding to prevent a quorum
- Killer Beez, a gang in New Zealand
Killer bees are firms or individuals that are employed by a target company to fend off a takeover bid; these include investment bankers (primary), accountants, attorneys, tax specialists, etc. They aid by utilizing various anti-takeover strategies, thereby making the target company economically unattractive and acquisition more costly.
Examples of strategy implementation by third parties are poison pills, people pills, white knights, white squires, Pac-Man defense, lobster traps, sandbagging, whitemail, and greenmail.
Killer Bees is a 1974 made for television horror film featuring Gloria Swanson that originally aired on ABC on February 26, 1974. Directed by Curtis Harrington, it had a very small cast, including Kate Jackson, Craig Stevens, John Getz, and Edward Albert.
Usage examples of "killer bees".
Micky crazily thought of killer bees, which might also have caused the shrieking figure to perform these frenzied gyrations.
They were just killer bees, animals with some sense of organization who attacked us every chance they got.
I doubt they would unless somebody went after 'em: Birds, anyway, aren't as violently reactive as, say, killer bees, although the pterosaurs may be.
Giant ants and killer bees as big as a man were also possibilities Bill considered, cursing his overactive imagination and trembling with fear, eyes darting every which way, nostrils flared.
Immediately the sky blackened, with a huge swarm of killer bees that began attacking every living creature, whether insect or mammal, massing over the bodies in clumps and flying at the trees and shrubbery in a frenzy of hate and rage.
The disclosures about the Pentagon's plans for a protracted nuclear war, as if dioxin, killer bees, and the failure of the social security system weren't enough, make me feel like it's time to relocate.
He would find it easier to endure a plague of killer bees or a hive of Hare Krishna solicitors with collection cups and eyes glazed by spiritual transcendence.
I didn't need any more doubts in my life, but sitting there alone on a pretty Sunday evening in summer with nothing to do, the what-if's poured out of my brain like a swarm of killer bees.