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Definition of Hatchet man
1. Noun. A professional killer.
2. Noun. One whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior.
Generic synonyms: Assistant, Help, Helper, Supporter
Derivative terms: Enforce
Definition of Hatchet man
1. Noun. A professional killer. ¹
2. Noun. (context: colloquial idiomatic) Someone who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hatchet Man
Literary usage of Hatchet man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1769)
"The ftory, however, as the faying is, does not run on all fours. We have no notion
of trees huzzaing the hatchet-man and liberty, or of their being ..."
2. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1841)
"... in time of alarm, to join the company in which such slave shall be enlisted
as pioneer or hatchet man as aforesaid, after notice of such enlistment, ..."
3. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1921)
"Scene S — "The hatchet man" — Chinese Fantasy. Scene 6 — "Mikado" Travesty.
Scene — Apartment District. Japan. Time — Your Leisure. ..."
4. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1922)
"Skid, who was the hatchet man, wiped his face, streaming with sweat, with a naked,
streaming arm, and called back to Roddy: "All that's needed to make this ..."
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