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contract noun- an order to kill someone or a reward offered to anyone who kills the target US, 1941
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua cosa nostra”
- “We’ll let a contract out on him,” Teddybear says. (The Haight thinks gangsters talk this way.) — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 45, 1967
- a promise made by one police officer to do a favour for another US
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 87, 16 March 1958
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