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单词 hatchet man
释义 hatchet man
noun
1. : a professional killer : triggerman, highbinder
 < the hooded cult retaliated and four … hatchet men were found dead in a ditch — W.M.Swann >
2.
 a. : one who transmits orders or maintains discipline for a superior : henchman
  < needed a competent and senior foreign service hachet man to keep the … career boys under control — Harper's >
 specifically : an ideological watchdog or party disciplinarian
  < served his party as chief hatchet man — Robert Bendiner >
 b.
  (1) : a writer who specializes in denunciation and invective often on orders from an employer and without regard to personal scruples
   < our present journalistic hatchet men — B.R.Redman >
  (2) : critic
   < a literary hatchet man — S.E.Hyman >
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