Synonyms for killer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kil-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɪl ər

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Définition of killer

Origin : 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.

noun murderer

Example sentences :

And that minute he turned me from a scared kid into an outlaw—a killer.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

In this nice, well-ordered age I'm a killer and everybody knows it.
Extract from : « Measure for a Loner » by James Judson Harmon

He had come from Trinidad, Colorado, and brought with him the reputation of a killer.
Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine

What do you reckon a killer like Overstreet cares for the law?
Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine

Lad, even a kid like you could be a killer with that six-gun.
Extract from : « Riders of the Silences » by John Frederick

Am I a killer, too, that I should strike a young and beautiful girl.
Extract from : « Police Your Planet » by Lester del Rey

Sometime in his career this buzzard was the killer for some liquor gang.
Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney

No man could have stood in front of that killer and pulled a trigger.
Extract from : « Ten From Infinity » by Paul W. Fairman

In this world the killer can command, as his fetich, the soul of the killed.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

Short was known as a killer, and hence as a fit man to go after Robinson.
Extract from : « The Story of the Outlaw » by Emerson Hough

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