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hatchet man
noun- a person who is called upon to perform distasteful tasks US, 1937
From the literal image of a paid assassin armed with a hatchet; sometimes abbreviated to a simple “hatchet”. - Some years earlier this man had been a “hatchet”–paid executioner–for the Hip Sing Tong. — Harry J. Anslinger (US Commissioner of Narcotics), The Murderers, p. 123, 1961
- Claw was the hatchet man. — Howard Polsky, Cottage Six, p. 33, 1962
- He’s Butcher Knife Brown’s ace runner and hatchet man since Brown has got elderly and half-blind. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 305, 1969
- One of the meanings of ‘hatchet man’ is someone who is hired by a company to bring about changes which the employees may not like. — The Hindu, 27 March 2001
- a physically aggressive athlete, especially one who is tasked with roughing up an opponent US
- — Zander Hollander and Sandy Padwe, Basketball Lingo, p. 54, 1971
- — Bill Shefski, Running Press Glossary of Football Language, p. 54, 1978
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