king hit
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Meaning · English
A blow intended to incapacitate in one hit, often delivered without warning.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
Australian English
Examples
Yet still, in the cultural area, at this time it had not yet delivered the populist king hit.
Quoted attestation: 2001, Robert Manne, Exclusionary Nationalism, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 2001, page 60,
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “king hit” mean?
A blow intended to incapacitate in one hit, often delivered without warning.
Is “king hit” formal or informal?
king hit is generally slang.