hatchet man

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: hatch=et man

CIDE DICTIONARY

hatchet man, n. 

•  A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.  [PJC]
•  A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with a political motive, and sometimes for pay.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

hatchet man

Cain, Thersites, apache, assassin, assassinator, backbiter, battler, belittler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, brawler, bruiser, bully, bullyboy, burker, butcher, button man, calumniator, cannibal, caustic critic, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cutthroat, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, desperado, detractor, disparager, disputant, duelist, enforcer, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, garroter, gladiator, goon, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, gunslinger, hanger-on, head-hunter, heeler, hellion, henchman, hit man, holy terror, homicidal maniac, homicide, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, killer, knight, knocker, libeler, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, militant, muckraker, mudslinger, mug, mugger, murderer, muscle man, pesticide, plug-ugly, poison, poisoner, quarreler, railer, rioter, rival, rodman, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, slanderer, slaughterer, slayer, social critic, squabbler, strangler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, terror, thug, tilter, torpedo, tough, traducer, trigger man, tussler, ugly customer, ward heeler, wrangler

ROGET THESAURUS

hatchet man

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.