overkill

1. Complete over-doing of something

2. A very fast motorhead song from 1979, It has the most badass drum into of any song... ever. Incidently, the drum intro was said to be "Overkill" as per the first definition by Motorhead's Bass Player / Singer Lemmy Kilmister.

1. Using a sledgehammer to swat a fly on your friends nose.

2.
Only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud,
So good you can't believe it's screaming with the crowd,
Don't sweat it, get it back to you,
Overkill! Overkill! Overkill!

by Out of the sun June 7, 2005

overkill

A person in the game of Runescape who backstabbs other plays in order to gain more pixels.

Overkill bsed Dark 3lf for his full dharoks.

by Riceboy November 9, 2008

overkill

The capability to obliterate and destroy with more force than required.

by Drew October 27, 2003

Overkill

Verb/ A term used in Final Fantasy X which means that you did a massive amount of to an enemy who had a smaller amount of life. In real life it can be used when someone kills a joke or tells a dead-on-arrival joke and tries to add to the joke to make it funny but ends up destroying it even more.

guy1: dude listen to this joke
guy2: k
(guy1 tells a bad joke)
guy2: that sucked
guy1: no, no, no you don't get it let me explain
(guy1 explains and throws in some extra stuff)
guy2: please dude don't overkill

by Shinji7676 February 13, 2009

Overkill

1.The term used in Halo 3 when four kills are achieved with under 4 seconds between each kill; a multi-kill. In Halo 3 a medal is awarded and "Overkill" is read in a dramatic tone.

2. Used when someone is caught the fourth time in a row doing something.

3. Over the top; extreme.

1. *Kills four people in halo 3 with 1 rocket* "OVERKILL!!!"

2. "Tony spit out the gum for the fourth time"
"OVERKILL!"

3. The atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were overkill.

by HungAzn January 11, 2009

overkill

In computer programming, overkill is referred to writing excessively more code than needed for a certain task. It can also mean writing up an endless function for which an already built-in one is available, and that the written one can even be less stable.

Foo wrote a 97 line function to calculate days between two dates when all he could have done (using php) is convert the Gregorian Dates to Julian Dates using built-in function GregorianToJD() and execute a simple subtraction, now that's overkill. This would reduce the code to 2-3 lines.

by neuroxik September 19, 2007

Overkill

See: Call of Duty

Did you see the new Call of Duty game? Its like the 15th one to come out. Overkill.

by d_fresh_money June 3, 2010