— killingly , adv.
/kil"ing/ , n.
1. the act of a person or thing that kills.
2. the total game killed on a hunt.
3. a quick and unusually large profit or financial gain: a killing in the stock market.
adj.
4. that kills.
5. exhausting: a killing pace.
6. Informal. irresistibly funny.
[ 1400-50; late ME (ger.); see KILL 1 , -ING 1 , -ING 2 ]