hit man
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7.6
- noun
- /hɪt mæn/
- Offensive
:
sicario
- ... and the hit man gets away clean.
- hire a hit man
So Ross thinks he hires a couple hit men to kill the guy.
- So Ross thinks he hires a couple hit men to kill the guy.
- They train these people to become hit men and terrorists.
- But the wrong Hanks, Jim, there's Hanks and his most challenging role yet, as a hit man about to strangle the statue of Lincoln.
- You can see yourself, the transactions where he's, he was paying what he thought was a hit man.
- They said that I travelled from the London area to the to Manchester as a hit man to assassinate the so-called you.
- Sean Cattle pleads guilty to hiring two hit men to go and kill Michael Galdieri.
- But generally speaking, if you are a law abiding person who isn't a criminal yourself, you know you're not in a gang, not a hit man.
- And you know, the hit man was an out of work airline pilot who got it all wrong and used the wrong gun and shot the dog instead of the man.
- And again, I think she's she's a hit man or some shit.
- But but but he's required to be a hit man in order to have his heart's desire.
- He had an amazing story and there was a there was a hit man that I actually read.
- You know, the real that you know, she's that, you know, she's kind of a hit man.
- You don't want some fucking hit man, some Joe Pesci up there right on my night night, which is skin.
Examples
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After years in hiding, she finally revealed that her father was a hit man known for his notorious jobs.
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A hit man is a contract killer without loyalties who works on a specific mission for a price.
Academic text (2001) -
You brought a hit man into the party?
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And now: are his hit men waiting outside?
Fiction book (2001) -
We have a known Soviet hit man.
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That is a long way from hiring a hit man to kill your child.
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Come on, he hired two hit men who then murdered Hank Greely.
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Sean Cattle pleads guilty to hiring two hit men to go and kill Michael Galdieri.
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Despite intensified efforts by authorities, no witnesses have been found in the brutal stabbing which experts consider to be the work of a professional hit man.
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The detective tracked down a hit man who had been hired by a crime syndicate.
Synonyms
520
3.6
A person who fires a gun, sometimes paid to kill others
230
6.3
A person who secretly kills a leader for political or religious reasons
183
4.8
A person who uses a gun to hurt or kill others
49
8.1
A person who is paid to kill someone, often with a gun
16
9.9
A man hired to kill someone
9
9.9
A person hired to kill someone in a sudden attack
5
9.7
A person who uses a gun to kill people for money or on orders
4
8.9
A person paid to kill someone
2
9.1
A person who is paid to kill someone with a gun
1
8.3
A person who secretly kills an important person, often for money
1
9.9
A person who kills someone, usually with a gun
A person paid to kill someone
Antonyms
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'hit' (here meaning to carry out a killing) + 'man' (a person) straightforwardly yields 'a person who carries out hits' (a hired killer). This V + person composition is a regular, cross-linguistic agentive pattern in English and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the given senses of the constituents.
Etymology
Hit man comes from criminal slang where hit meant a planned attack and man named the person who did it, so a hit man is someone paid to 'kill' for a criminal group.