king hit
See also: king-hit
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Noun
[edit]- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, also figurative) A blow intended to incapacitate in one hit, often delivered without warning.
- 2001, Robert Manne, Exclusionary Nationalism, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 2001, page 60,
- Yet still, in the cultural area, at this time it had not yet delivered the populist king hit.
- 2010, Mark Dapin, King of the Cross:
- ‘Yeah, he says he′s sorry for stealing your scooter but you deserved it, and he wants you to take him on in a fair fight,’ said Dror. ‘No king hits and no guns.’
- 2011, Mark Latham, “Correspondence: Bad News”, in Andrew Charlton, editor, Quarterly Essay, page 112:
- This is what the Australian lacks, the integrity of being itself and coming at its political opponents front-on. In its current guise, it is throwing cowardly king-hits, so much so that a mild, civilised figure such as Bob Brown has labelled it “the hate media.”
- 2001, Robert Manne, Exclusionary Nationalism, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 2001, page 60,
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[edit]king hit (third-person singular simple present king hits, present participle king hitting, simple past and past participle king hit)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, also figurative) To attack a victim and knock them unconscious with a single punch.
- He king hit from behind and his victim fell to the floor.
- 2003 March 19-30, Cameron Stewart, The Lion King - The Lethal Touch, in The Australian Magazine, republished in Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, unnumbered page,
- His most notorious transgression – and his greatest regret – was the day in 1985 when he king-hit Geelong player Neville Bruns, breaking his jaw.
- 2007August 11, Passengers say dead man (was) ‘king hit’ in fight over $20, Sydney Morning Herald,
- Passengers leaving P&O's Pacific Sun yesterday told how a man who died on board the ship had been king hit following an alcohol-fuelled fight with another man over $20.
- 2007 August 6, “Man sues club and bouncers after king hit”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
- Michael Smith came up to the plaintiff and king hit him ... he was unconscious before he hit the ground,” Mr Karimi′s lawyer, Philip Doherty, SC, told the court.
- 2008, Larry Writer, The Australian Book of True Crime, unnumbered page:
- She came up to where Tilly was shaking me like a rag doll and, without a word, she king-hit Tilly Devine and then sat on her in the street.