hitjob

English

Alternative forms

• hit-job, hit job

Etymology

From hit +‎ job.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

hitjob (plural hitjobs)

1. (slang) A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.
   • 2011, Ronald Kessler, The Secrets of the FBI, page 216:

     Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan.