widow-maker

/-də-/

noun

  1. 1

    Something which or someone who takes the lives of men; a lethal hazard that affects mostly men or is specific to a primarily male trade.

  2. 2

    The detached or broken limb of a tree, a hazard to those walking underneath.

  3. 3

    (The left coronary artery, or its anterior interventricular branch, occlusion of which is likely to cause a fatal heart attack)

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