A 'killer' is a person, animal, plant, object, etc., that kills. See also
assassin;
murderer.
'Killer' or 'The Killer' may also refer to:
Games
:''(including game characters)''
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Killer (pool) is the name of a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
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Killer (card game) is the name of a climbing card game related to ''tien len''
★ Killer is the name of a variant of the game of
darts
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Killer sudoku, variant of the Sudoku puzzle
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Assassins (game) or Killer, a live action role-playing game by Steve Jackson Games where players play assassins who "kill" one another
★ "Killer" is used in the
video game industry to describe a game made to compete with another, such as a "Pong killer"
★ Killer is an antagonist in the video game .
Films and fiction
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''The Killer'' (film), a 1989 film directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat.
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''The Killer'' (2006 film), a 2006 Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan.
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''The Killer'' (play), a 1958 play by
Eugène Ionesco.
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"The Killer" (story), a 1933 story by
Walter B. Gibson.
★ "Killer" or "Kira", nickname of the main character
Light Yagami of the Japanese manga ''Death Note''
:''See also ''
Kiler'', a 1997 Polish comedy film.''
Slang and jargon
★ "Killer" is
slang for "good", "great", etc.
★ A "killer" is postal jargon for a
cancellation (lines, bars, grid, etc.) applied to stamps on a letter to prevent their reuse
Music
★ "The Killer" is a nickname of singer/pianist
Jerry Lee Lewis
★ "Killer" is the nickname of baseball player
Harmon Killebrew
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Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
★ Killer, a 1980s UK
psychobilly band
★ Killer, a 1980s Swiss
heavy metal band
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''Killer'' (album), the 1971 album by Alice Cooper
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"Killer" (Adamski song), a song by Adamski and Seal
★ "Killer", a song by
Boy Kill Boy from their debut album ''Civilian''
★ Killer is another term for
dark psytrance.
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Killer (Tech N9ne album), set to be released in 2008
Other
★ "
Killer (computer)", or "The Killer", was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in
Operation Sundevil
See also
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Killers (disambiguation page)