Killer

Killer may refer to:

• A killer is a person, animal, object, plant, (etc.) that kills. See also assassin; murder.
• A killer is the lines, bars, grid, etc. applied to stamps on a letter to prevent their reuse (see also cancellation)
• Assassins (game) or Killer, a live action role-playing game by Steve Jackson Games where players play assassins who "kill" one another
• Killer is slang for good, great, or such things
• Killer Sudoku, variant of the Sudoku puzzle
• Killer is the name of a variant of the game of Darts
• Killer is the name of a climbing card game related to Tien Len
• Killer is used in the video game industry to describe a game made to compete with another, such as a "pong killer"
• The Killer NIC, a computer Network Interface Card.
• Killer, or "The Killer," (on the Internet, domain name killer.dallas.tx.us or attctc.dallas.tx.us) was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine operated by AT&T employee Charles Boykin. Killer was briefly taken offline and searched by company security during Operation Sundevil, and was shut down without notice by AT&T on February 20, 1990, by which time the system had 1,500 users. A group of them went on to found Super Dimension Fortress.

In music:

• Killer (UK band), a 1980s UK psychobilly band
• Killer (album), the second successful Alice Cooper album, released in 1971
• Jerry Lee Lewis is nicknamed "the Killer."
• Killer (Finnish band), a pop band in Finland, popular in the early 2000s
• Killer (Swiss band), a Swiss heavy metal band, popular in the 1980s
• "Killer (Seal song), a song by Seal and Adamski
• "Killer", a song by Boy Kill Boy from their debut album Civilian
• Killer is a form of Psytrance, also called as Dark psytrance.

In comics:

• killer or kira, the name given by the public to the main character Light Yagami of the Japanese comic Death Note

See also

• Killers
• The Killer
• The Killers
• Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot
• Killer 7