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A killer is a person, animal, plant, object, etc., that kills. See also assassin; murderer. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ...

Killer or The Killer may also refer to:

Games

(including game characters)

• Killer (pool) is the name of a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
• 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
• Killer sudoku, variant of the sudoku puzzle
• 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 Shadow Hearts: From The New World.

Killer is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of lives and takes one shot per inning to attempt to pocket (pot) a ball, or else lose a life. ... Killer is a relative of the Vietnamese card game Tiến Lên (spelled in many places as Tien Len). ... For the British doo-wop revival band of the 1970s and 1980s, see Darts (band). ... Killer sudoku (also killer su doku, sumdoku, sum doku, addoku, or samunamupure) is a puzzle that combines elements of sudoku and kakuro. ... ). Assassins is a game, popular on high school and college campuses, that involves covertly assassinating people, usually with a squirt gun. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ...

Films and fiction

• The Killer (1989 film), a 1989 film directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat.
• The Killer (2006 film), a 2006 Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan.
• The Killer (play), a 1958 play by Eugène Ionesco.
• "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.

The Killer (Traditional Chinese: 喋血雙雄, Simplified Chinese: 喋血双雄; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: dip6 hyt3 seong1 hung4; Mandarin Pinyin: ; literally: Bloodshed of Two Heroes) is a 1989 Hong Kong thriller starring Chow Yun-Fat as the hitman Ah Jong, Danny Lee as the cop Li Ying and Sally Yeh as the singer Jennie. ... The Killer is a 2006 Bollywood movie starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan. ... Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. ... Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897-December 6, 1985) was an American author and a professional magician best known for his work on The Shadow. ... A list of characters in Death Note. ... Kiler is a highly successful 1997 Polish comedy by Juliusz Machulski, starring Cezary Pazura, Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Rewinski and Malgorzata Kozuchowska. ...

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

For other uses, see Slang (disambiguation). ... A machine cancellation On mail, a cancellation (or cancel for short) is a postal marking applied to a postage stamp or postal stationery indicating that the item has been used. ...

Music

• "The Killer" is a nickname of singer/pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Killer" is the nickname of baseball player Harmon Killebrew
• Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
• Killer, a 1980s UK psychobilly band
• Killer, a 1980s Swiss heavy metal band
• Killer (album), the 1971 album by Alice Cooper
• Killer, a song by Van Der Graaf Generator from their 1972 album, H To He, Who Am The Only One
• "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.
• Killer, an album by Tech N9ne set to be released in 2008

Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935), also known by the nickname The Killer, is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... Harmon Clayton Killebrew (born June 29, 1936 in Payette, Idaho, United States) is a former Major League Baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. ... Killer is a rock band founded in 1999 in Helsinki, Finland. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Heavy metal redirects here. ... Killer is the 1971 album by Alice Cooper. ... This article is about the band. ... Killer is a popular song by Adamski and Seal. ... Boy Kill Boy are an English rock band based in Leytonstone, East London. ... Dark psytrance (often called dark psy or simply dark) is a darker and distorted form of psychedelic trance music that is made mostly in Russia, Germany, Papua New Guinea (predominantly acoustic dark psy) and more & more in other countries worldwide from last years. ... Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri) better known by his stage name Tech N9ne, is an American rapper. ...

Other

• Killer (computer), or The Killer, was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil

Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on illegal computer hacking activities. Along with the Chicago Task Force and the Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau, they conducted raids in Austin, Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Tucson, San Diego...

See also

• Killers (disambiguation page)

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