To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
Used in a Sentence
kills
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for kills.
Editorial note
The margin is comfortably high in Japan, but ignoring quality kills retention and maintaining quality brings overhead costs back up to the level of existing franchise-model businesses.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of kills gathered in one view.
The act of killing.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for kills.
verb
To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
noun
The act of killing.
noun
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
noun
Specifically, the death blow.
Example sentences
The margin is comfortably high in Japan, but ignoring quality kills retention and maintaining quality brings overhead costs back up to the level of existing franchise-model businesses.
This kills me, it means I can no longer bring 20 pounds of soylent back to Argentina with me (in powder form).
You can have a livable city by going light or going dense, but being in the middle is what kills you (which is where SF is right now).
You want to type a name into a computer and a drone finds that person and kills them?
Above all, memory bandwidth has been what kills Epiphany and completely prevents it from reaching their advertised performance.
Given that Usenet's effectively dead, is an example which kills Usenet and replaces it with Usenet-Prime all that different?
Nickel and diming the artists kills that for a short term hit of profit that isn't sustainable.
It kills a sound that you never noticed, because the engineers already killed it for you.
Having only a single event thread kills Node relative to the top JVM servers.
Having to go through an OS and a file system to access a few bytes kills the performance advantage of such devices.
I should have clarified I'm assuming worst case scenario where a cop shoots a civilian and kills them.
It could be something that takes over or kills advertisement completely like Amazons various tries to create a platform for all online commerce.
Quote examples
When you have a number of difficult things (with unknown outcomes) in your future that is called "stacking risk", you can succeed but the next step failing kills you, Etc.
If Newegg successfully defends and defeats a patent claim by having the patent declared invalid, the law of what the lawyers call "res judicata" (meaning, "a matter adjudged") kicks in and kills that patent off forever.
[1] Rabies still kills tens of thousands of people a year in Asia and Africa, in places where "get vaccinated" is not the standard response to getting bitten by a wild animal (the major vector of Rabies there is feral dogs); by the time symptoms appear it's too late.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use kills in a sentence?
The margin is comfortably high in Japan, but ignoring quality kills retention and maintaining quality brings overhead costs back up to the level of existing franchise-model businesses.
What does kills mean?
To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
What part of speech is kills?
kills is commonly used as verb, noun.