Usually means: Heart attack from blocked artery.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word widow-maker:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. widow-maker: Merriam-Webster
  2. widow-maker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. widow-maker: Wordnik
  4. widow-maker: Wiktionary
  5. Widow-maker: Dictionary.com
  6. Widow-maker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. widow-maker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Widow-maker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. widow-maker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. widow-maker: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Widow-maker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. widow-maker: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. widow-maker: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. widow-maker: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Widow-maker: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (widow-maker)

noun:  (idiomatic) 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.
noun:  (forestry) The detached or broken limb of a tree, a hazard to those walking underneath.
noun:  (medicine, informal) The left coronary artery, or its anterior interventricular branch, occlusion of which is likely to cause a fatal heart attack.
noun:  (slang) The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.

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