hitman

See also: hit man

English

Alternative forms

• hit man

Etymology

From hit (“to murder”) +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪtmæːn/, /ˈhɪtmən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

hitman (plural hitmen)

1. A male contract killer, especially one paid by a mafia.

   Hypernym: contract killer

   Coordinate term: hitwoman

   • 2007, Howie Carr, The Brothers Bulger‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (soccer) A goalscorer; someone who scores goals.

Related terms

• hit list

Descendants

• → Cebuano: hitman

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: hitman, 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 (ja) (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 English hitman.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hit‧man

Noun

hitman

1. a hitman; a contract killer

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hitman.