Other forms: hitmen
A hitman is a killer hired to murder somebody. Hire a hitman.
The word belongs to films far more than to any court record. Most people who try to hire a hitman are talking to a police officer within a week.
1nounhitmanA killer hired to murder somebody.
“The supposed hitman was an undercover officer.”
hitman is a person.
Middle English
hitten
English
hit
English, today
hitman
From hit + -man. hit comes from Middle English hitten. Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA