Definitions for killer

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killer kill·er

Spelling: [kil-er]

IPA: /ˈkɪl ər/

Killer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in killer (eikllr).

Definitions for killer

noun

1. a person or thing that kills.
2. killer whale.
3. a device used by a post office for printing cancellations on postage stamps.
4. a mark of cancellation made on a postage stamp.
5. Slang. something or someone having a formidable impact, devastating effect, etc.:

adjective

1. severe; powerful:
2. very difficult or demanding:
3. highly effective; superior:

Origin of killer

First recorded in 1525-35; kill¹ + -er¹

Examples for killer

Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.

What do you reckon a killer like Overstreet cares for the law?

In the course of his confession, he supplied details that should only have been known to the killer.

Lad, even a kid like you could be a killer with that six-gun.

The police found six eyewitnesses who reported seeing Anthony Porter at the pool that night and named him as the killer.

In this nice, well-ordered age I'm a killer and everybody knows it.

He had come from Trinidad, Colorado, and brought with him the reputation of a killer.

By Jerome Groopman, New Yorker Researchers get closer to outwitting a killer.

And that minute he turned me from a scared kid into an outlaw—a killer.

They might take a moment to wonder why the killer thought they were just the ones with whom he wanted “to share the pics.”