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buzzkill
[buhz-kil]
noun
a person or thing that spoils the mood or the pleasure of others.
Enforcement of strict park rules could be a buzzkill for concertgoers.
buzzkill
/ ˈbʌzˌkɪlə, ˈbʌzˌkɪl /
noun
slang, someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves
Word History and Origins
Origin of buzzkill1
Example Sentences
The biggest buzzkill when planning a big vacation?
Empty seats aren’t just a game day buzzkill given their correlation to lost revenue.
Well, not to be a buzzkill, but so far Musk’s party is just the latest iteration of a consistently unsuccessful effort to build a political movement around Third Way–style austerity and other things people don’t actually want.
And after such a successful opening weekend, it’s no major surprise that the excerpt from the Variety write-up was received like a buzzkill showing up to a rager-in-progress.
Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.
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