Noun
one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
a professional killer
Source: WordNetEd Kretzman, a policy advisor for the service, would later comment that it was VOA's "darkest hour when Senator McCarthy and his chief hatchet man, Roy Cohn, almost succeeded in muffling it". Source: Internet
"But that wasn't Hearst," Welles said, "that was a hatchet man from the local Hearst paper who thought he would advance himself by doing it." Source: Internet
Luther proved to be a master intriguer and became Ribbentrop's favourite hatchet man. Source: Internet
This remark prompted some members of the media to perceive him as angry about the loss, contributing to Dole's "hatchet man" image earned during his tenure as RNC chairman and the '76 campaign. Source: Internet