All hired gun synonyms

noun hired gun

• assassin — An assassin is a person who assassinates someone.
• butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
• gunman — a person armed with or expert in the use of a gun, especially one ready to use a gun unlawfully.
• hatchet man — a professional murderer.
• hit man — a hired killer, especially a professional killer from the underworld.
• killer — a person or thing that kills.
• murderer — a person who commits murder.
• sniper — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
• trigger man — a gangster who specializes in gunning people down.