hired gunAmerican EnglishAmE informalKILL someone who is paid to shoot someone else 雇用的枪手[刺客]hired gun• Her coming was more like bringing in a hired gun.• The most free-spending hired guns are all well-known by political mavens inside the Beltway.• This time Bruce Willis is the hired gun in Prohibition-era Texas.• This time Bruce Willis is the hired gun, caught between Chicago gangsters fighting for control of the hooch business.
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