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
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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.
