killer-diller

[ kil-er-dil-er ]

noun

, Older Slang.

1. killer ( def 5 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of killer-diller¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40; rhyming compound

Example Sentences

Partly because of the postwar 1946 period setting — those killer-diller cars and costumes are the cat’s meow — but mostly due to the no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, lead performance by Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter.

From Seattle Times

Partly because of the postwar 1946 period setting — those killer-diller cars and costumes are the cat’s meow — but mostly due to the no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, lead performance by Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter.

From Seattle Times

That always made Eckland flush some; you could see he was the type who dreamed of himself as a glamor boy, a killer-diller with the dames.

From Project Gutenberg

What he chooses to do modulates this movie from a sophisticated situation comedy into an ingenious killer-diller.

From Time Magazine Archive

No hopped-up killer-diller, Brooklyn, U.S.A. is as tough, cold-blooded and obscene as the rats who are its characters.

From Time Magazine Archive