triggerman
☆
noun pl. triggermen
- a hired killer, specif., one who is a gangster
- that person, among those committing a crime, who shoots the victim
See triggerman in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(trĭgˈər-mən)
noun- An underworld gunman who in premeditation shoots a victim.
- A gunman; a shooter: “Where is the moral justification . . . in offering the platoon survivors—the actual triggermen—immunity?” (Nelson DeMille).
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