Killer
Appearance
- For "Killers" or "The Killers" see Killers (disambiguation)
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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 (card game), 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 (role-playing game), 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 live".
- 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
- Killer! (1989 film) (video title: The Killer), a 1989 American film
- The Killer (1989 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 (comic), a comic written by Matz
- Killer (novel) a novel by Sara Shepard, part of The Pretty Little Liars series
- Hunger Games (novel/movie) by Suzanne Collins Clove and Cato are killers. Staring Jennifer Lawrence
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), an album by Impious
- "Killer" (Kiss song), a song by Kiss
- "Killer" (Adamski song), a song by Adamski and Seal
- Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
- Killer (British band), a 1980s psychobilly band
- Killer (Swiss band), a 1980s heavy metal music 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 (rapper)
Nicknames
- Danilo Di Luca, professional cyclist
- Doug Gilmour, ice-hockey player
- Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
- Jerry Lee Lewis, singer/pianist
- Katlego Mphela, footballer
- Light Yagami, the main character of the Japanese manga Death Note
Other
- Daniel Killer, 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 with titles beginning with Killer
- Kiler, a 1997 Polish film
- Killers (disambiguation)
- "Killa", a song by Cherish