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gun-for-hire

gun-for-hire noun: a contract killer.

Noun

gun-for-hire (plural guns-for-hire)

  1. A contract killer.
  2. (broadly) A contractor.
    • After months of bitter disagreements and legal back-and-forth, he had finally given up and struck out on his own, but he'd met with a string of bad luck—a client who refused to pay, a flood, a false insurance claim—and he'd had to shut up shop; now he was working for a big construction firm as a...2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 128

Forms of gun-for-hire

pluralguns-for-hire

Questions about gun-for-hire

What does gun-for-hire mean?
Gun-for-hire means a contract killer.
What part of speech is gun-for-hire?
Gun-for-hire is a noun.
What is the plural of gun-for-hire?
The plural of gun-for-hire is guns-for-hire.

Words near gun-for-hire in the dictionary

  1. gun-brig
  2. gun-brigs
  3. gun-broke
  4. gun-centric
  5. gun-control
  6. gun-for-hire
  7. gun-fu
  8. gun-happy
  9. gun-howitzer
  10. gun-howitzers
  11. gun-kata

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