Alternative form of shoot the messenger

(Internet) A user's file listing the users of a newsgroup whose postings are to be ignored, or other criteria for ignoring posts.

(Internet) To add (a user) to a kill file.

(ice hockey) An effort by a penalized team to nullify a penalty and opponent's power play, a length of time during the game when a penalized team has one or more players in the penalty box.

(informal, intransitive) To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.

(dated, slang) To get a positive test result from an old-fashioned pregnancy test.

Alternative spelling of killjoy

(obsolete) Rum

(obsolete) Port wine

(obsolete) Alternative form of killcalf