killing field

See also: Killing field

English

Noun

killing field (plural killing fields)

  1. The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
    • 2025 April 25, Andrew Roth, “Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      The story of how the son of a top-ranking US spy died fighting for Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is an unlikely tale of how homegrown anger at the United States and online radicalisation led from a middle-class Virginia childhood to the killing fields of eastern Ukraine.
  2. A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
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