triggerman

Noun

Meaning

triggerman (plural triggermen)

(US slang) A hired gunman; a hitman.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

slayer gunner liquidator gun torpedo shooter murderer assassin marksman gunslinger slaughterer cyclotron gunman hitman hit man
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Antonyms

victim

Hypernyms

liquidator murderer manslayer

Examples

Perhaps new Dolphins offensive coordinator Chan Gailey will also try Perry as a wildcat triggerman. Source: Internet

But the unused footage reveals something striking: Though she never names the triggerman in the Siegel murder, Bee seems bent on implying that she knows who he is. Source: Internet

At one end was an insurgent triggerman. Source: Internet

Rather, it was the fact that Foster and Brown, the triggerman, had been tried together, that Perry said compelled him to grant the commutation. Source: Internet

The triggerman, 39-year-old Damion Hamilton, was cut down hours later in another police operation in Cooreville Gardens, St Andrew, in which two other officers were injured. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

triggerish triggerless triggerlike triggernometry triggerperson triggerwoman