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kill

1. tv. to be very successful with an audience; to perform very well for an audience. She really killed them with that last joke.

2. tv. to eat all of something; to drink all (of a bottle) of something. We finally killed the last of the turkey.

3. tv. to douse a light. Would you kill the light so they can’t see we’re home?

4. 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.

kill

/run down/run out the clock

Sports To preserve a lead by maintaining possession of the ball or puck until playing time expires.

See:

• be dressed to kill
• close in for the kill
• don't kill the messenger
• dress to kill
• dressed to kill
• even if it kills me
• fill or kill
• fit to kill
• have time to kill
• I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you
• if looks could kill
• in at the death
• in at the kill
• in for the kill
• It is not work that kills, but worry
• It is the pace that kills
• kill
• kill (one)self
• kill for
• kill for something
• kill me
• kill off
• kill or cure
• kill the clock
• kill the fatted calf
• Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
• kill time
• kill two birds with one stone
• kill with kindness
• look fit to kill
• move in for the kill
• run out the clock
• that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
• what doesn't kill you makes you stronger