Citations:killer diller

Noun: "A person or thing that is astonishing, outstanding, or exciting."

 * 1948 — Hal Seeger, "Killer Diller", film title, 1948
 * 1969 — John Lennon, "Polythene Pam", Abbey Road (London, England), 26 September 1969:
 * She's killer diller when she's dressed to the hilt"
 * 2000 — "Goodman, Benjamin David (1909-1986) Clarinetist, composer, and bandleader", The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford University Press
 * "Sing, Sing, Sing": Many say that swing music arrived on January 16, 1938, when Benny Goodman performed his "killer diller," at New York's Carnegie Hall.
 * 2004 — Tricia Brock, "Killer Diller", film title, March 2004
 * http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-899045.html play on words with Barry Diller
 * http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8201264.html play on words with Phyllis Diller
 * http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3416100047.html Title of novel by EDGERTON, Clyde (Carlyle) 1944-
 * http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1233057.html Washington Post "From Annie Eliza's first words, "Last week was a killer-diller!" she speaks to us for more than 200 pages of things...heard from her just the other day. Annie Eliza's "killer-diller" week begins with the arrival of her nephew, a pathologist..."
 * http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/jazzglossary/k/killerdiller.html An exciting (or difficult to play) piece of music (swing era).
 * http://www.npr.org/2000/01/31/1069809/sing-sing-sing JANUARY 31, 200012:00 AM ET "The last number on the program was "Sing, Sing, Sing" — what Goodman called a "killer diller," a number intended to get a crowd on its feet, jitterbugging."
 * http://www.latimes.com/fashion/alltherage/lat-styleicon5_ket8iknc20090209100436-photo.html 'Malcolm X In his early days as a hustler, he favored a loud zoot suit and described it as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell."'
 * http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/harmful-little-armful-incomparable-fats-waller Fats said, "It is my contention, and always has been, that the thing that makes a tune click is the melody, and give the public four bars of that to dig their teeth into, and you have a killer-diller...It's melody that gives variety to the ear."
 * http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=killer+diller "Musician that really plays all out. Especially a horn player. From the big band era. Man, he's really killer diller on that trumpet.