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.
Recent Examples on the Web When Gupta asked the source to put him in touch with a hit man, the source connected him with another undercover DEA agent, according to investigators. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024 In the romantic action-comedy, directed by Richard Linklater, Glen Powell plays a mild-mannered professor who moonlights for the police posing undercover as a hit man — and ends up falling for a woman (Adria Arjona) who enlists his services. Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 For Linklater, our fascination with hit men was key to telling this story. Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 Image In the movie, Powell’s faux hit man adopts a dozen personas using wigs and accents. Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hit man 

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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 7 Jul. 2024.

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