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hitman (plural hitmen)
- A male contract killer, especially one paid by a mafia.
- Hypernym: contract killer
- Coordinate term: hitwoman
- 2007, Howie Carr, The Brothers Bulger[1]:
- Their top hitman, Joe Russo, was on the lam after murdering Joe Barboza in San Francisco.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 172–173:
- The high priest of US arms controllers called me a "nuclear arms agreement hitman," which I took as a compliment.
- (soccer) A goalscorer; someone who scores goals.
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- → Cebuano: hitman
Translations[edit]
contract killer
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Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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- Hyphenation: hit‧man
Noun[edit]
hitman
- a hitman; a contract killer
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:hitman.
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