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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hit man
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Byrd and Bacon reportedly sought out a hit man to kill Oldham for $ 10, 000.
▪ Maybe somebody employed a hit man.
▪ One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer.
▪ The hit man, however, turned out to be an informer for the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
▪ Valle said he found the incriminating letter in the home of the hit man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hit man

hit man \hit man\ n.

  1. A professional murderer, esp. one working for a criminal organization; also called torpedo. [Colloq.]

  2. A slanderer working for political purposes to damage the reputation of an opponent; a hatchet man.

Wiktionary
hit man

n. Someone who kills for a living; a hired assassin.

WordNet
hit man

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

Wikipedia
Hit Man (U.S. game show)

Hit Man is an American television game show that ran from January 3 to April 1, 1983, on NBC. Peter Tomarken hosted this Jay Wolpert production in association with Metromedia Video Productions, while Rod Roddy was the announcer.

Hit Man (film)

Hit Man is a 1972 American crime film directed by George Armitage and starring Bernie Casey, Pam Grier and Lisa Moore. It is based on the Ted Lewis novel Jack's Return Home, more famously adapted as Get Carter, with the action relocated from England to the United States.

Usage examples of "hit man".

Can you think of any reason why Franco Laurentis would send a hit man to your door?

Maybe it could, but more likely the robot-Winkler had an accomplice--a hit man, if that is the correct Twentieth-Century jargon.

In-house hit man, the gangs hire them to keep their own noses clean.

I didn't care to spend every day of my existence wondering if the trash bots were about to cram me into the garbage truck or if the mail bot was really a hit man in disguise.