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hired gun

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 to advance the interests of his or her employer, especially in a vigorous manner using such methods as political lobbying, legal advocacy, or persuasion.

WordNet
hired gun

n. a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]

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Hired Gun

Hired Gun was a medium-sized development team created internally within Microsoft Studios, headed by project leader Jo Clowes. The team worked on the port of Halo 2 from its original Xbox edition, to a new and improved Windows Vista exclusive. The team consisted of approximately 50 members, divided between port coding, the development of the map editor and new multiplayer maps, as well as software testing. Their project, which became dubbed "Halo 2 Vista" or "H2V", was developed between early February 2006 and April 2007. Hired Gun provided patch support for the game until October 2007, after which the team were dissolved and redistributed within Microsoft Studios to work on other projects.

Hired Gun (disambiguation)

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

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.