English Explanatory Dictionary

axe murderer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Agent noun of axe murder: one who axe murders; one who murders using an axe.
  2. Any incredibly dangerous person.

Word forms

axe murderer axe murderers axe-murderer

Etymology

From axe + murderer. It may possibly have entered the lexicon after the axe murders of Villisca, Iowa, which happened in 1912.

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