JFK
v.v. to kill someone by shooting them in the head. This is a very rude and shocking way to describe a murder, based on the famous death of an American president.
v. to assassinate or kill someone by shooting them in the head. Highly offensive and crude; derived from the 1963 assassination of US President Kennedy. Transitive — requires a direct object.
The villain threatened to JFK the witness if he talked.
In the dark thriller, the hitman was ordered to JFK the target from a nearby rooftop.
The script was criticized for its excessive violence, particularly a scene where a character is JFKed in graphic detail, which many viewers found to be in poor taste.
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object; often used in the passive voice in crime fiction contexts.