Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being or fit to be killed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective fit to kill, especially for food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Fit to be
killed , especially as a source offood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fit to kill, especially for food
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in reality they believe both that a life stirs very early on and that a one-week-old embryo is more "killable" than a nine-month-old fetus.
Steven Waldman: Safe, Legal & Early -- A New Way of Thinking About Abortion 2009
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But in reality they believe both that a life stirs very early on and that a one-week-old embryo is more "killable" than a nine-month-old fetus.
Steven Waldman: Safe, Legal & Early -- A New Way of Thinking About Abortion 2009
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They had to hunt in packs and learn to trap and heard their prey so as to be killable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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Tucker Carlson's efforts to dehumanize Vick and paint him as a disposable, killable individual cuts in a way that transcends the idiocy of Murdoch's 50-state southern strategy of dimples and dog whistles.
Dave Zirin: On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick Dave Zirin 2010
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Tucker Carlson's efforts to dehumanize Vick and paint him as a disposable, killable individual cuts in a way that transcends the idiocy of Murdoch's 50-state southern strategy of dimples and dog whistles.
Dave Zirin: On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick Dave Zirin 2010
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The problem I see with this situation, is that who ever kills this buck. (if this buck is killable).
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Nevr lingr on a shot, as soon as that animal presents a killable shot and teh crosshairs meet, pull the trigger.
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Tucker Carlson's efforts to dehumanize Vick and paint him as a disposable, killable individual cuts in a way that transcends the idiocy of Murdoch's 50-state southern strategy of dimples and dog whistles.
Dave Zirin: On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick Dave Zirin 2010
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The supreme creative power in the universe however, does not kill them (since they are immortal), and are therefore ‘un-killable.’
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They had to hunt in packs and learn to trap and heard their prey so as to be killable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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