(archaic) Alternative form of curiosity killed the cat / Too much worry leads to burden.

simple past tense and past participle of one-hit kill

(informal, intransitive) To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.

To eliminate, or make extinct. / (of writers or producers) To take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.

(dated, slang) To get a positive test result from an old-fashioned pregnancy test.

The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery. / A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

(baseball, slang) A double play.

Alternative spelling of killjoy

A number of murders in a short span of time; a rampage.