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guns-for-hire

guns-for-hire is the plural of gun-for-hire.

Meaning of gun-for-hire

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

Questions about guns-for-hire

What is guns-for-hire the plural of?
Guns-for-hire is the plural of gun-for-hire.

Words near guns-for-hire in the dictionary

  1. guns blazing
  2. guns down
  3. guns for
  4. guns off
  5. guns up
  6. guns-for-hire
  7. Gunsan
  8. gunsel
  9. gunsels
  10. gunshed
  11. gunsheds

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