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long knife long knife1. A person hired to murder someone. It looks like the mob sent a long knife over last night to silence the last surviving witness.2. The power or intent to attack someone in order to force them to stop or change their actions. Lobbyist groups for the industry have already been sharpening their long knives in order to quash what little support such regulation has within Congress. The mainstream media has always had a long knife out for people like me who reveal the truth to the world!See also: knife, longlong knife1. n. an assassin. (Underworld.) Some long knife showed up, but Marty took him out before he made his move. 2. n. a destroyer; a hatchet man. One of his long knives came over to pressure us into cooperating. See also: knife, long |