gunman

English

Etymology

gun +‎ -man

Noun

gunman (plural gunmen)

1. A (usually male) criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.
   • 1921, Zane Grey, To The Last Man, ch. 5,

     "I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."

Translations

criminal armed with a gun

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 槍手 (cmn), 枪手 (cmn) (qiāngshǒu)

• Finnish: pyssymies (fi)
• Japanese: ガンマン (ja) (ganman)

• Russian: (no exact term exists) вооружённый преступник (ru) (vooružónnyj prestúpnik) m
• Spanish: pistolero (es) m

Derived terms

• lone gunman

See also

• gunwoman