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triggerman

[trig-er-muhn, -man]

noun, plural trig·ger·men

[-muhn, -men] . Informal.

a gangster who specializes in gunning people down.

a bodyguard, especially of a gangster.

Also called trigger.

Origin:
1920–25; trigger + man¹

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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triggerman (ˈtrɪɡəˌmæn)

—n , pl -men
	a person, esp a criminal, who shoots another person

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