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n. A person who contracts to kill a specified person for an agreed sum of money
Usage examples of "contract killer".
It took me a while to piece it together, but something similar has happened three times in connection with the operations of a contract killer who calls herself the Tigress.
I wondered as I bent over the body The contract killer Kevin Hawkins had died at St.
He'd been a contract killer, and therefore someone else had made the decision to do the killing.
Wouldn't a contract killer suspect that his employer might try to kill him?
Someone used it to locate and lever a contract killer out of the Bay City police holding stack.
However, Kuuraveer argues in The Art of Legal Murder that such an attribution is too obvious, and puts forward an alternative case for Tomar Haanigan, a contract killer and owner of several bordellos on Silverado where the Harkonnen slave raiders went in search of fresh victims.
He looked at me and said, 'George Kosinski has been told that a contract killer named Thurkettle killed his wife.