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murderers' row

murderers' row noun: a team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.

Noun

murderers' row (plural murderers' rows)

  1. (idiomatic) A team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.
  2. (idiomatic) Any ensemble which comprises exceptional individuals.
    • The cast was a murderers' row, with five Oscar winners in supporting roles.
    • Reuniting with a murderers’ row of similarly wizened crime-movie veterans, Scorsese hasn’t just returned to reclaim the genre he nearly perfected. He’s come to bury it, too2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020

Proper noun capitalized: Murderers' Row

Murderers' Row

  1. (historical) The batting lineup of certain New York Yankees teams in the early twentieth century, most notably the 1927 team.
  2. (historical) A group of middleweight boxers in the 1940s.

Forms of murderers' row

pluralmurderers' rows

Origin of murderers' row

From Murderers' Row.

Questions about murderers' row

What does murderers' row mean?
Murderers' row means a team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.
What part of speech is murderers' row?
Murderers' row can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of murderers' row?
The plural of murderers' row is murderers' rows.

Words near murderers' row in the dictionary

  1. murderedst
  2. murderee
  3. murderees
  4. murderer
  5. murderers
  6. murderers' row
  7. murderers' rows
  8. murderess
  9. murderesses
  10. murderest
  11. murdereth

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