tv. to be very successful with an audience; to perform very well for an audience. : She really killed them with that last joke.
tv. to eat all of something; to drink all (of a bottle) of something. : We finally killed the last of the turkey.
tv. to douse a light. : Would you kill the light so they can't see we're home?
tv. to stop or terminate something; to quash a story; to stop a story from being printed in a newspaper. : Kill that story. It's got too many errors.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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