killer bee

Questions about killer bee

What does killer bee mean?

killer bee means "an investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeover". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for killer bee?

Close synonyms include Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is killer bee a common word?

killer bee is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.