" overkills "

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1: More than what is needed. In gross excess of what is reasonably expected. An excess of something beyond what is required or suitable for a given purpose.

  * e.g.,  ... "So, Bob, you ready to tear down that fence?" "Yeah, Chuck, the plastic explosives are all wired up!" 

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2: Originally applied to nuclear weaponry.

  * e.g.,  ... A 40-megaton nuke is overkill for destroying a farmhouse. 

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1:  (proper noun) Thrash metal pit fare born of New Jersey. The first thrash metal band in the history of metal, forming in 1980 and releasing classic thrash metal albums such as The Years of Decay, WFO and Horrorscope.

  * e.g.,  ...  I saw Overkill play last night and they played a kickass show. 

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2:  (proper noun) A Motorhead album and its title track where the band of this name got it from.

  * e.g.,  ...  A 112,000 square foot Wal-Mart is overkill for this small town. 

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3:  (noun) The act, or acts, of doing more than what is necessary to accomplish a task. Often associated with warfare.

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1: a word that is defined WAY too many times. I personally like seeing a variety, but 148 SLUT definitions, talk about overkill ...common now!

  * e.g.,  ... SLUT appears 148 times 

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1: A word popular amongst people who play MUDs or other MMORPGS. To kill with an excessive amount of force usually in unfair Player VS Player fights.

  * e.g.,  ... In a Mud I use to play (called MUME) this was the most classic example: 

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1: Awesome thrash metal band hailing form New Jersey, easily recognized by vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth's buzzsaw-like vocals. Recently released their fourteenth album RELIXIV.

  * e.g.,  ... "I just listened to "Shred" by Overkill and I creamed my pants" 

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1:  Complete over-doing of something

  * e.g.,  ...  Using a sledgehammer to swat a fly on your friends nose. 

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2:  A very fast motorhead song from 1979, It has the most badass drum into of any song... ever. Incidently, the drum intro was said to be "Overkill" as per the first definition by Motorhead's Bass Player / Singer Lemmy Kilmister.

  * e.g.,  ...   

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1: A person in the game of Runescape who backstabbs other plays in order to gain more pixels.

  * e.g.,  ... Overkill bsed Dark 3lf for his full dharoks. 

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1: The capability to obliterate and destroy with more force than required.

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1: Verb/ A term used in Final Fantasy X which means that you did a massive amount of to an enemy who had a smaller amount of life. In real life it can be used when someone kills a joke or tells a dead-on-arrival joke and tries to add to the joke to make it funny but ends up destroying it even more.

  * e.g.,  ... guy1: dude listen to this joke 

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1: The term used in Halo 3 when four kills are achieved with under 4 seconds between each kill; a multi-kill. In Halo 3 a medal is awarded and "Overkill" is read in a dramatic tone.

  * e.g.,  ...  *Kills four people in halo 3 with 1 rocket* "OVERKILL!!!" 

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2:  Used when someone is caught the fourth time in a row doing something.

  * e.g.,  ...  "Tony spit out the gum for the fourth time" 

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3:  Over the top; extreme.

  * e.g.,  ... "OVERKILL!"