hit man

noun

1
: a professional assassin who works for a crime syndicate
2

Examples of hit man in a Sentence

She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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Alec Baldwin’s psycho hit man also chooses her to intimidate into getting the jury to acquit. Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025 Based on an almost-too-wild-to-believe true story, Hit Man follows Gary Johnson (Glen Powell), a mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man for the FBI. Janey Tracey, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025 The estranged husband of Brent Sikkema, an art dealer who was found stabbed to death in Brazil last year, has been charged with hiring a hit man. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025 The script does make occasional stabs at something offbeat, with haphazard cutaways to a romantic subplot in which Marvin’s depressed assistant, Ashley (Lio Tipton), falls for Raven (Mustafa Shakir), an enormous, poetry-writing hit man. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hit man

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of hit man was in 1963

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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20man. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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