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hatchet man

NOUN
  1. a professional killer
  2. one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior

How To Use hatchet man In A Sentence

  • I'm not a hatchet man. Times, Sunday Times
  • A cafe owner vouches for them and they are freed, but it isn't long before they come face to face with the bloodthirsty robber and his hatchet man!
  • The hatchet man did not know it all, though. Christianity Today
  • The Times asked a senior figure who has fired more than 100 colleagues face to face what it is really like to be the hatchet man. Times, Sunday Times
  • For those not familiar with the playing style of Peter Storey, a midfield fixture in the Arsenal side who won the Double in 1970-71, the best way to conjure him up is to picture the toughest, most uncompromising hatchet man of the present day; and then imagine him being decisively duffed-up by a relatively slight but undeniably ferocious figure in a stylish round-neck red-and-white shirt. True Storey by Peter Storey – review
  • From his shoot out with the cops at the Little Bohemia Lodge, to his daring escape from jail using a wooden gun covered with boot polish, the film allows us to indulge in the idea of Dillinger as a kind of swashbuckling hatchet man. “Nobody did it like DILLINGER… He was the gangster’s gangster!” | Obsessed With Film
  • Most challenges involving the hatchet man either leave him rolling around theatrically, or his opponent rolling in pain. Times, Sunday Times
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