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Noun: killer bee
  1. An investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeover
     
  2. A strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
    - Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii

Derived forms: killer bees

Type of: Apis mellifera, honeybee, investment banker, underwriter

Encyclopedia: Killer bee