hitjob

Noun

hit job (plural hit jobs)

1. (slang) A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.
   • Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan.2011, Ronald Kessler, The Secrets of the FBI, page 216
2. (slang) A publication launched to damage the reputation of person or company.
   • One of the first critics to latch onto Where's the Rest of Me? was the journalist Jessica Mitford. In February of 1965, Esquire’s Harold Hayes assigned Mitford a profile of Reagan as a politician—a potentially valuable piece of national exposure. But Reagan stopped cooperating when he sensed...2012, Craig Fehrman, “Reagan and the Rise of the Blockbuster Political Memoir”, in American Literary History, volume 23, number 3, pages 475–476