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 (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