Meaning of king hit | Babel Free

Definitions

A blow intended to incapacitate in one hit, often delivered without warning.

Australia, New-Zealand, also, figuratively, slang

Examples

“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.”

“‘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.’”

“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.””

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