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

Your Mother stars Mahershala Ali as Latif, a devout Muslim hit man. — Fred Topel, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2026

In September 2021, an undercover FBI agent posing as a hit man spoke with Cordrey by phone, prosecutors say. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026

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

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