Killer

For "Killers" or "The Killers" see Killers (disambiguation)

A killer is someone or something that kills, such as a murderer. "Killer" is also a slang term, an adjective denoting something of excellence or a high standard

Killer may also refer to:

Recreation

• Killer (pool), a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
• Killer, a climbing card game related to tien len
• Killer (game), a parlor game played with cards and candles
• Assassin (game), or killer, a live-action role-playing game
• Killer: The Game of Assassination, an official live action role-playing game set of rules, derived from the precedent and first published by Steve Jackson Games in 1982
• Killer, a variant of the game of darts
• Killer sudoku, or samunamupure, a variant of sudoku

Films and television

• Killer! (1969 film), an alternative title for This Man Must Die
• The Killer (1972 film), a Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio
• "Killer" (Taggart), the 1983 pilot episode and title of the later re-named Scottish detective TV series Taggart
• The Killer (1989 film), a Hong Kong action and crime film directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat
• Killer (1991 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
• Killer (1994 film) (a.k.a. Bulletproof Heart), a film starring Anthony LaPaglia, Mimi Rogers, and featuring Peter Boyle
• Killer: A Journal of Murder, a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram
• Killer (1998 film), a French/Kazakhstani crime drama
• Killer (video), a music DVD by Die Ärzte - first released in 1999
• Killer: Dead or Alive, a 2006 thriller film
• The Killer (2006 film), a Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan
• The Killer (2007 film), a horror short starring Michael Learned
• "Killer" (CSI), an episode from the sixth season of the American television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006)
• Ghostface (Scream), aka "The Killer" - the murderer in the Scream movie series

Books, stories and plays

• Killer: A Journal of Murder (novel), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based
• The Killer (play), English title of Tueur sans gages, a play by Eugène Ionesco
• The Killer (1970 novel), a novel by Colin Wilson
• The Killer (novel), a 1933 novel by Walter B. Gibson about the fictional character The Shadow
• The Killer (Perera novel), a novel by Lishan Perera
• "The Killer" (story), a short story by Stephen King
• The Killer (comics), a comic written by Matz
• Killer (novel) a novel by Sara Shepard, part of The Pretty Little Liars series

Music

• Killer (Alice Cooper album), a 1971 rock album by Alice Cooper
• Killer (Tech N9ne album), 2008 rap album by Tech N9ne
• The Killer (Impious album), a 2002 album by Impious
• "Killer" (Kiss song), a 1982 song by Kiss
• "Killer" (Adamski song), a 1991 song by Adamski and Seal
• Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
• "The Killer" (Mobile song), a song by Canadian band Mobile
• The Killer (Shed album), a 2012 album by German techno musician Shed
• "Killer", a song by Van Der Graaf Generator from H to He, Who Am the Only One
• "Killer", a song by Boy Kill Boy from Civilian
• "Killer", a song by The Hoosiers from The Trick to Life
• "Killer", a song by Krokus from Painkiller
• "Killer", a song by Fazer

Nicknames

• Danilo Di Luca (born 1976), professional cyclist
• Doug Gilmour (born 1963), ice-hockey player
• Harmon Killebrew (1936–2011), baseball player
• Jerry Lee Lewis (born 1935), singer/pianist
• Katlego Mphela (born 1984), footballer
• Light Yagami, the main character of the Japanese manga Death Note

Other

• Daniel Killer (born 1949), former Argentine footballer
• Killer, Germany, a village in the town of Burladingen, in the Killertal valley
• Killer (philately), term for a heavy stamp cancellation mark
• Killer (computer), an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil
• Killer NIC, a network interface card manufactured by Bigfoot Networks
• Killer application or killer app, a computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology
• TNFRSF10B, tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 10b, a human gene

See also

• All pages beginning with "Killer"
• Kiler, a 1997 Polish film
• Killers (disambiguation)
• "Killa", a 2007 song by Cherish