hitman - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From hit (“to murder”) + -man.
hitman (plural hitmen)
- 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.
- (soccer) A goalscorer; someone who scores goals.
- → Cebuano: hitman
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:
- 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
- Hyphenation: hit‧man
hitman
- a hitman; a contract killer
For quotations using this term, see Citations:hitman.