kills

Noun (1)

kill (plural kills)

1. The act of killing.
   • The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
2. Specifically, the death blow.
   • The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
3. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
   • The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
4. (countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
   • confirmed kills
5. The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
   • As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21

Noun (2)

kill (plural kills)

1. (New-York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal, largely fossilized in place names) A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
   • The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.

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