hitman

See also: hit man

English

Alternative forms

• hit man

Etymology

From hit (“to murder”) +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪtmæːn/, /ˈhɪtmən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hitman (plural hitmen)

1. 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.

2. (soccer) A goalscorer; someone who scores goals.

Related terms

• hit list

Descendants

• → Cebuano: hitman

Translations

contract killer

• Albanian: vrasës i paguar
• Arabic: قَاتِل مَأْجُور (qātil maʔjūr)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: наёмны забойца m (najómny zabójca)
• Bulgarian: нае́мен уби́ец m (naémen ubíec)
• Catalan: sicari m
• Cebuano: hitman, tirador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺手 / 杀手 (zh) (shāshǒu), 合約殺手 / 合约杀手 (héyuē shāshǒu)

• Czech: nájemný vrah m
• Danish: lejemorder (da), snigmorder
• Dutch: huurmoordenaar (nl) m, huurdoder m
• Esperanto: murdisto (eo), sikario (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: palkkamurhaaja (fi), ammattitappaja
• French: tueur à gages (fr) m, sicaire (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Auftragsmörder (de) m, Auftragsmörderin (de) f, Killer (de) m, Killerin (de) f
• Greek: εκτελεστής (el) m (ektelestís)
• Hebrew: רוצח שכיר (he) m (rotséakh sakhír)
• Hungarian: bérgyilkos (hu)
• Icelandic: leigumorðingi m
• Italian: sicario (it) m, killer (it) m
• Japanese: 殺し屋 (ja) (ころしや, koroshiya), ヒットマン (hittoman), キラー (ja) (kirā)
• Khmer: បេច្ឈឃាដ (bəcchɔɔkhiət)
• Korean: 암살자 (amsalja)
• Latin: sīcārius m
• Latvian: slepkava
• Lithuanian: samdomas žudikas m
• Macedonian: пла́тен у́биец m (pláten úbiec)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leiemorder m

  Nynorsk: leigemordar m

• Polish: płatny zabójca m, cyngiel (pl) m (slang)
• Portuguese: assassino de aluguel m, sicário (pt) m
• Romanian: killer m, asasin (ro) m, ucigaș (ro) m, sicar (ro) m
• Russian: наёмный уби́йца m (najómnyj ubíjca), ки́ллер (ru) m (kíller)
• Serbo-Croatian: plaćeni ubica m
• Slovak: nájomný vrah
• Spanish: sicario (es) m, asesino a sueldo m
• Swedish: yrkesmördare (sv) c, torped (sv) c
• Thai: ผู้ลอบสังหาร, ผู้ลอบสังหาร (pûu-sɔ̀ɔp-sǎng-hǎan), นักฆ่า (nák-kâa)
• Turkish: kiralık katil, tetikçi (tr)
• Ukrainian: на́йманий вби́вця m (nájmanyj vbývcja)
• Vietnamese: kẻ ám sát

Cebuano

Etymology

From English hitman.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hit‧man

Noun

hitman

1. a hitman; a contract killer
   • 2010 — Tabar, Dennes R., Hitman sa Tau Nasikop (19 August), SuperBalita

     Base sa ilang pasiunang imbestigasyon nakadawat silag report nga si Opsimar hitman sa iyang fraternity hinungdan nga ilang susihon ang pagkatawo niini.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)