hit man

noun

1

: a professional assassin who works for a crime syndicate

2

: hatchet man

Examples of hit man in a Sentence

She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.

Recent Examples on the Web

Assassination-for-hire is the tragicomic domain of people looking for someone to kill a spouse or a rival but getting blackmailed by teenagers pretending to be hit men in the process. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

All the while, a clean-up crew led by Drew Starkey’s kinky, idiosyncratic hit man Cyrus follows close behind, but this is a third, more vestigial movie, which only distracts from the main event. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026

In order to exact that revenge, Weiner said Banks had hit men target Tyquian Terrel Bowman, also known as Quando Rondo. — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

But the current Sinaloa turf war—la narcopandemia, locals call it—has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence. — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for hit man

• afghan
• bedpan
• began
• caveman
• chapin
• cyan
• deadpan
• dextran
• divan
• doorman
• fishman
• flagman