hitman

See also: hit man

English

Alternative forms

hit man

Etymology

hit (“to murder”) +‎ -man

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɪtmæːn/, /ˈhɪtmən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

hitman (plural hitmen)

A contract killer, especially one paid by the mafia.
- 2007, Howie Carr, The Brothers Bulger‎:
  Their top hitman, Joe Russo, was on the lam after murdering Joe Barboza in San Francisco.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 172–173:
  The high priest of US arms controllers called me a "nuclear arms agreement hitman," which I took as a compliment.
(soccer) A goalscorer; someone who scores goals.

Related terms

hitwoman

Descendants

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Translations

contract killer

Albanian: vrasës i paguar
Arabic: قَاتِل مَأْجُور‎ (qātil maʔjūr)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: наёмны забойца m (najómny zabójca)
Bulgarian: нае́мен уби́ец m (naémen ubíec)
Cebuano: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), tirador
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殺手／杀手 (zh) (shāshǒu), 合約殺手／合约杀手 (héyuē shāshǒu)
Czech: nájemný vrah m
Danish: lejemorder (da), snigmorder
Dutch: huurmoordenaar (nl) m, huurdoder m
Esperanto: murdisto (eo), sikario (eo)
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: palkkamurhaaja (fi), ammattitappaja
French: tueur à gages (fr) m, sicaire (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Auftragsmörder (de) m, Auftragsmörderin (de) f, Killer (de) m, Killerin (de) f
Greek: εκτελεστής (el) m (ektelestís)
Hebrew: רוצח שכיר‎ (he) m (rotséakh sakhír)
Hungarian: bérgyilkos (hu)
Icelandic: leigumorðingi m
Italian: sicario (it) m, killer (it) m
Japanese: 殺し屋 (ja) (ころしや, koroshiya), ヒットマン (hittoman), キラー (kirā)
Khmer: បេច្ឈឃាដ (bəcchɔɔkhiət)
Korean: 암살자 (amsalja)
Latin: sīcārius m
Latvian: slepkava
Lithuanian: samdomas žudikas m
Macedonian: пла́тен у́биец m (pláten úbiec)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: leiemorder m

Nynorsk: leigemordar m
Polish: płatny zabójca m, cyngiel (pl) m (slang)
Portuguese: assassino de aluguel m, sicário m
Romanian: killer m, asasin (ro) m, ucigaș (ro) m, sicar (ro) m
Russian: наёмный уби́йца m (najómnyj ubíjca), ки́ллер (ru) m (kíller)
Serbo-Croatian: plaćeni ubica m
Slovak: nájomný vrah
Spanish: sicario (es) m, asesino a sueldo m
Swedish: yrkesmördare (sv) c, torped (sv) c
Thai: ผู้ลอบสังหาร, ผู้ลอบสังหาร (pûu-sɔ̀ɔp-sǎng-hǎan), นักฆ่า (nák-kâa)
Turkish: kiralık katil
Ukrainian: на́йманий вби́вця m (nájmanyj vbývcja)
Vietnamese: kẻ ám sát

Cebuano

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: hit‧man

Noun

hitman

a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); a contract killer

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hitman.

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