hit man

noun

|Updated on: 8 Jun 2018

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Definition of hit man

1 : a professional assassin who works for a crime syndicate

2 : hatchet man

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Examples of hit man in a Sentence

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

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Colombian police have re-arrested a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar as part of an investigation into extortion.

— Fox News, "Colombia re-arrests Pablo Escobar's hitman for extortion," 25 May 2018
An Irish hit man and his protégé (Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell) cool their heels in Belgium after a killing goes slightly awry, although trouble soon finds them, along with a body count of Shakespearean proportions.

— charles bramesco, New York Times, "The Little Lebowskis: 10 Righteous Heirs to a Coen Brothers’ Classic," 6 Mar. 2018
Avila, a drama which tells the tale of a hit man who struggles with personal demons.

— bloomberg, Fortune, "HBO Is Taking Its Cord-Cutter War Against Amazon and Netflix to Europe," 11 May 2018
The man tried to first hire a hit man in October while in jail, according to court documents, and then made a second attempt in December.

— josh magness, miamiherald, "He sexually abused a minor — and looked for a hit man to kill the girl, Virginia cops say | Miami Herald," 5 Apr. 2018
Two undercover detectives posing as hit men met with Taylor in the parking lot at the Westminster Mall.

— hannah fry, latimes.com, "Huntington Beach man pleads guilty in foiled plot to have his former sister-in-law killed," 20 Mar. 2018
While behind bars, the inmate attempted to hire a hit man to kill his young victim, according to court documents obtained by WTKR.

— josh magness, miamiherald, "He sexually abused a minor — and looked for a hit man to kill the girl, Virginia cops say | Miami Herald," 5 Apr. 2018
Peterson was sentenced to 38 years in prison for Savio’s killing and received additional time for trying to hire a hit man to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars.

— tracy swartz, chicagotribune.com, "Stacy Peterson's sister objects to Marcia Clark's TV investigation of case," 4 Apr. 2018
Jacob was specifically convicted of solicitation of capital murder for paying an undercover Houston police officer posing as a hit man in March 2017.

— fernando alfonso iii, Houston Chronicle, "The socialite scandals that rocked Houston," 11 Apr. 2018

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