hit list
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- noun
- /hɪt lɪst/
- Offensive
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lista de personas a eliminar
- The detective uncovered a hit list that included several local politicians.
- top of the hit list
- next on the hit list
- name on a hit list
Well, to my knowledge, I'm not on his hit list.
- Well, to my knowledge, I'm not on his hit list.
- And so, yeah, so that wound up, I wound up in the al Qaeda hit list from that.
- I went to the guidance counselor and told her since I was second on the hit list.
- My man's a killer, but if you're not careful, you end up killing someone that God didn't put on the hit list.
Examples
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Her name appeared on the hit list of a notorious criminal organization.
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But if this is a hit list, why is this guy still alive?
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What the hell did you think a hit list was?
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Now I just need my hit list.
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This is our hit list.
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Eight years ago, this guy was on the hit list.
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Why not put them on your hit list as well?
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There's a reason they gave you that hit list.
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So this Terminatrix, how many others does she have on her hit list?
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Are you still on Carmen's hit list?
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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A list of people someone plans to kill or hurt
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun-noun compound straightforwardly combines 'hit' (an arranged murder/assassination) with 'list' (a recorded sequence of names), so the meaning 'a list of people to be targeted' is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, making it predictable for a B1 learner who knows both words in these senses.
Etymology
Hit list comes from a clear image: someone writing names on a list of people to hit, meaning to attack or kill. So it now means a list of people chosen 'to be harmed' or 'to be killed'.