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Killer

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

A killer is a person (such as a serial killer or assassin, or a murderer more generally), animal, plant, object, etc., that kills.

Killer may refer to:

Games and game characters

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, a variant of the game of darts
Killer sudoku, a variant of sudoku involving clues about the sums of numbers
Killer, a villain in the video game Shadow Hearts: From The New World
Killer, a villain's sidekick in the films All Dogs Go to Heaven and An All Dogs Christmas Carol

Films and television

The Killer (1989 film), directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat
The Killer (2006 film), a Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan
Killer: Dead or Alive, a 2006 thriller film
Killer: A Journal of Murder, a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram
Killer (1998 film), a French/Kazakhstani crime drama
Killer! (video title: The Killer), a 1989 American film
Killer (1991 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
Killer (1994 film), a film featuring Peter Boyle
The Killer (1972 film), a Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio
The Killer (2007 film), a horror short starring Michael Learned
Killer (CSI), an episode of the American television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Killer (Scream), the murderer in the Scream trilogy

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 (story), a short story by Short fiction by Stephen King#1994|Stephen King
The Killer (novel), a 1933 novel by Walter B. Gibson about the fictional character List of The Shadow stories#Pulp Magazine Novels|The Shadow
The Killer (Perera novel), a novel by Lishan Perera
"Killer", or "Kira", nickname of Light Yagami, the main character of the Japanese manga Death Note
The Killer (comic), a comic written by Matz

Music

Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
Killer (Alice Cooper album), a 1971 rock album by Alice Cooper
Killer (Tech N9ne album), 2008 rap album by Tech N9ne
"Killer" (Kiss song), a song by Kiss
"Killer" (Adamski song), a song by Adamski and Seal
"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 Pat Travers
"Killer", a song by the Tiger Lillies
"The Killer" (Mobile song), a song by Canadian band Mobile
Killer (Tech N9ne album), a 2008 studio album by Tech N9ne
The Killer (Impious album), an album by Impious
"The Killer", a nickname for singer/pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
Killer (British band), a 1980s psychobilly band
Killer (Swiss band), a 1980s heavy metal music band
Killer (video), a music DVD by Die Ärzte

Other

Killer, Germany, a village in the town of Burladingen, in the Killertal valley
Killer (philately), term for a heavy stamp cancellation mark
"Killer", a nickname for baseball player Harmon Killebrew
"Killer", a nickname for musician Jerry Lee Lewis
"Killer", a nickname for ice-hockey player Doug Gilmour
"The Killer", a nickname for professional cyclist Danilo Di Luca
Killer (computer), or The Killer, was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil
Killer NIC, a network interface card manufactured by Bigfoot Networks
"The Killer", a nickname for American Professional Wrestler Tylor Chamberlain, Co-Founder of Alliance of Extreme Wrestling

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Killer" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Swedish.

Translation in Japanese: キラー.


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