death ray
noun1
Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A beam of radiation that can kill.
- The evil aliens' death rays could not penetrate our mighty force fields!
- "Back off cunt or you're getting a face full of death ray! I didn't tell him anything!"2017 October 2, Dave Barrack, Grrl Power (webcomic), Grrl Power #567 – Zero sum shopping:
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A weapon that emits such a ray: a ray gun.
- Near-synonym: heat-ray
- The evil alien pointed a death ray at me and ordered me to start marching toward the distant fortress!
- Related terms
- cosmic ray, gamma ray, x-ray