"kill file" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-kill file.wav Forms: kill files [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kill file (plural kill files)
  1. (Internet slang) A user's file listing the users of a newsgroup whose postings are to be ignored, or other criteria for ignoring posts. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Usenet Synonyms: bozo filter [slang], bozo bin, ignorelist [uncommon], twitlist
    Sense id: en-kill_file-en-noun-Fz4D-Y1Y Disambiguation of Usenet: 70 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 13

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-kill file.wav Forms: kill files [present, singular, third-person], kill filing [participle, present], kill filed [participle, past], kill filed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} kill file (third-person singular simple present kill files, present participle kill filing, simple past and past participle kill filed)
  1. (transitive, Internet slang) To add (a user) to a kill file. Tags: Internet, transitive Synonyms: killfile, kill-file
    Sense id: en-kill_file-en-verb-GNvDGmJT

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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