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hatchet man

–noun
1. a professional murderer.
2. a writer or speaker who specializes in defamatory attacks, as on political candidates or public officials.
3. a person whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior, as dismissing employees.
Also, hatch⋅et⋅man.
Also called axman.


Origin:
1745–55, Americanism
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