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Mercenary ruing he’d fired
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hired gun
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Wikipedia
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Hired Gun may refer to a mercenary a video game development team a song from Bad Brains ' album I Against I a song from Chris Rea 's album Shamrock Diaries an Australian country music band, The Hired Guns (1996–2010) started as The Lizard Train
WordNet
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n. a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman , gunslinger , gun , gun for hire , triggerman , hit man , hitman , torpedo , shooter ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is employed as an armed guard, enforcer, or mercenary and who is prepared to use gunplay or similar violent methods in order to assert the interests of his or her employer. 2 (context idiomatic by extension English) A person who is employed ...
Usage examples of hired gun.
The ones who remained were hired gun hands or no-account drifters.
When you showed up, Fisher was afraid Gerry would go to you for help, so he told Gerry if he as much as spoke to you, they'd bring this hired gun from New York—.
He had also been a hired gun for the big cattle outfits back in Texas.
He'll be forced to show himself, if only to kill his hired gun, to remove any association.
But since I seem to remind you of some hired gun with a nasty rep.
You are so right about my having a newspaper to put out, and my readers have the right to know a hired gun is running loose in their township like a mad dog off its leash!
Then he considered how tough it might be for a hired gun to find out which hotel a stranger in town had registered at if he was holed up in a private home a good quarter mile away instead.
Goble was beaten up on it tonight--by a hired gun named Richard Harvest.
Goble was beaten up on it tonightby a hired gun named Richard Harvest.