killing field

[ kil-ing feeld ]

nounUsually kil·ling fields [kil-ing feeldz] /ˈkɪl ɪŋ ˌfildz/ .
  1. a site of indiscriminate and cruel killing of large numbers of people, especially a place of wartime genocide: The concentration camps of Germany and the killing fields of Cambodia are graphic displays of the presence of evil in our world.

  2. a dangerous place where an excessive number of people have died, as by murder, riots, or drug overdose: Some 300 lives are violently ended each year on the killing fields of New York's streets and sidewalks, about half of them pedestrians or cyclists.

Origin of killing field

1
First recorded in 1980–85

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