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hit man
noun
- a hired killer, especially a professional killer from the underworld.
hit man
noun
- slang.a hired assassin, esp one employed by gangsters
Word History and Origins
Origin of hit man1
Example Sentences
It was only after being moved to Moscow that the dual British-Russian citizen realised he was one of 24 prisoners to be freed in the exchange - including a Kremlin hit man.
In the indictment, the U.S. accused an unnamed Indian official of working with a known international narcotics trafficker to hire the fake hit man for $100,000.
But as the Russian hit man fled the scene — a wooded pathway in a park in the middle of Berlin — he bungled his getaway.
Johnson’s bosses asked him to disguise himself as a hit man and wear a wire to meet her.
The story: Glen Powell is a philosophy professor who moonlights for the police in New Orleans when he finds himself undercover posing as a hit man in this Richard Linklater movie.
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