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  • noun Alternative form of axe murderer.

Etymologies

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1921

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Examples

  • Reading the story of Sodom as being about homosexuality is like reading the story of an axe-murderer and saying it's about an axe.

    Jay Michaelson: Who Are The Real Sodomites? Jay Michaelson 2011

  • Reading the story of Sodom as being about homosexuality is like reading the story of an axe-murderer and saying it's about an axe.

    Jay Michaelson: Who Are The Real Sodomites? Jay Michaelson 2011

  • The way they get past the axe-murderer problem is by having participants sign up via their employers or schools.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • As for the axe-murderer problem, I think it's less of a liability and insurance issue if it's freeware tapping into a publicly hosted database, rather than a single company owning and running the system.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I'd also love to kill off Peter and Jane with an axe-murderer or two ...

    Mashing up children's books with monsters Alison Flood 2010

  • May they share a prison cell with a seven foot tall transvestite axe-murderer who dresses up as Amy Winehouse!

    More anti-Seimitic attacks in London Not a sheep 2009

  • I could do other things, like "do good", or read, or watch TV, or listen to the radio etc, or have a social life, or be a roving axe-murderer, but I don't do much of any of that.

    Weblogs Maxine 2009

  • Another when the six-year-old Edgar seizes an axe as if his creativity is being released along with his inner axe-murderer.

    Nevermore 2010

  • I could do other things, like "do good", or read, or watch TV, or listen to the radio etc, or have a social life, or be a roving axe-murderer, but I don't do much of any of that.

    Pinning one's hamster to the mast Maxine 2008

  • I could do other things, like "do good", or read, or watch TV, or listen to the radio etc, or have a social life, or be a roving axe-murderer, but I don't do much of any of that.

    Pinning one's hamster to the mast Maxine 2008

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