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    [Noun]  | "wid*ow-mak*er" | \ ˈwi-dō-ˌmā-kər \


    1: something having the potential to cause sudden loss of life : such as

    2: a loose limb hanging in or falling from a tree

    3: a blockage in a branch of the left coronary artery that commonly causes a fatal heart attack; also : the branch of the left coronary artery susceptible to fatal blockage


    Origin: 1798 ;

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     [ "widow-maker" ]

    1: something dangerous or lethal (such as a falling bough or dead tree)

      * e.g.,  ... That storm was widow-maker. 

     [ "widow maker" ]

    1: A widow maker is an object that can kill men and therfore turn wives into widows.

      * e.g.,  ... The 'Widow Maker,' is a bong constructed by my friend Jonny and I by attaching a 3ft hoover pipe to increase chanber size for a bigger hit. This increased hit often left many good men paralised, or in some rare and tragic occasions, dead. 

     [ "widow maker" ]

    1: A widow maker is a one-shot break-action 12 guage shotgun.

      * e.g.,  ... Don't make me pull out the widow maker boy 

     [ "Widow Maker" ]

    1: A large dab of more than one strain of butane hash oil (bho), rosin, ect, to be taken in a single hit.

      * e.g.,  ... The dude dropped a widow maker on the new omni nail. 

     [ "Widow Makers" ]

    1: A freakin' sweet roller derby team located in Humboldt County, California - named after the limbs that fall off of trees and kill people.

      * e.g.,  ... We got creamed last night by the Widow Makers from Humboldt Roller Derby. They literally mopped the track with our jammer. 

     [ "janitor widow maker" ]

    1: Commonly referred to as a JWM, it involves unleashing a dump in a public bathroom so damaging that were a janitor to attempt to clean it, it would make a widow of his wife, and an orphan of his children.

      * e.g.,  ... Laughing, Ken passed the janitor on his way out of the bathroom, knowing his janitor widow maker was about to strike. 


     [ "janitor widow maker" ]

    2: A variation is the UJWM, which involves a urinal. This is a high-risk move, but a janitorial fatality is pretty much assured if successful.

     [ "Widow Maker" ]

    1: Applies to billiards pool. When the eight ball rests very close to the edge of a pocket, making the next shot more difficult because an eight ball scratch is more likely.

      * e.g.,  ... Watch out for the widow maker! 

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