The Rice University Neologisms Database

To kill someone, especially for a medical professional to kill a patient. Apparent meaning: To kill someone, especially used to refer to the death of a patient due to a medical professionals’ intentional harmful treatment. Taken from the name of the doctor who intentionally killed terminally ill patients, Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Type of word formation: Eponymy. Possible reason used: References Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the medical doctor who was known to end the lives of terminally ill patients. Its meaning was somewhat generalized, as it was not used to refer to euthanasia but to the death of any patient.