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Meanings of triggerman in English
Portuguese
pistoleiro Catalan
assassí professional 
A professional killer who uses a gun.
Synonyms
Examples for "gun"
Examples for "gun"
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Don't tell me tomorrow isn't the appropriate time to debate gun violence.
2
However, the former Florida State kicker received another chance at the gun.
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We are going to add gun violence to that list, she said.
4
The case ignited debates on race relations, gun control and American justice.
5
If these trends continue, gun violence research might be another Congressional casualty.
1
Police said the two men may have been the gunman's intended victims.
2
Authorities said they were searching for another possible gunman wearing military-style clothing.
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Police said the gunman then called a taxi to take him home.
4
Police said the death toll today remained 13, including the gunman himself.
5
Witnesses said an Israeli civilian had also opened fire on the gunman.
1
However, the rise of Earl Sliney as the possible shooter jumbled things.
2
All three people, including the shooter, were taken to hospital, said police.
3
Authorities have said the shooter was known to police and lived locally.
4
Ignoring that, a real distance shooter wouldn't use one unless absolutely necessary.
5
The second shooter fled the campus, according to college spokesman Jed Young.
1
The torpedo attack was most likely a direct order by Kim Jong-il.
2
Some of the crew had been watching the approach of the torpedo.
3
Alongside floating stages in the basins lay submarines and torpedo boat destroyers.
4
At the same time the U-Boat launched a torpedo at the Brigadier.
5
A second torpedo impacted from starboard, fired by the smaller Integrity vessel.
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The gunslinger thought in a detached way that light was pretty good.
2
The gunslinger needed to know things, in spite of the risk .
3
Detta changed course and began to crawl toward the gunslinger's inert body.
4
The gunslinger read fear and terror at war with some excruciating pleasure.
5
The gunslinger carried their water, freshly drawn from one of the springs.
1
Norris said Williams' her approach to enlisting a hitman was not typical.
2
The Antrim hitman suffered double fracture to his hand at the weekend.
3
Then they'd concentrate on their theory that the killer was a hitman.
4
I swear, every predator that survived the flood has a hitman namesake.
5
You don't fuck with a hitman. Grief flickered behind his eyes again.
1
You're a hired gun, wanted for questioning in a dozen countries.
2
Is this what you meant about being a hired gun, Doctor?
3
But it wasn't a hired gun who put these ideas in his head.
4
But when Rashid talked about the daughters, he didn't sound like a hired gun.
5
They told Papadakos that Deckas was a hired gun.
1
Not a centre-forward, or a poacher or some seasoned gun for hire.
2
Observers describe Roux as a legal gun for hire who is not motivated by altruism.
3
Instead, he is more likely to continue attempting to play as a T20 gun for hire.
4
This is because corporate America continues to turn to Wachtell as its top legal gun for hire.
5
She's a merc: a gun for hire.
1
Then they tell me he's a real hit man, wadda y' know?
2
He's a former Soviet hit man from one of the intelligence services.
3
One reading of the crime scene pointed to a forensically aware hit man.
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The likelihood that a hit man would do time is almost 100 percent.
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That could easily be the way he found his hit man.
Usage of triggerman in English
1
But Vincent wasn't the triggerman-notfor Lena, not for his father.
2
At the end, an insurgent triggerman waits -sometimes in a buried bunker.
3
I just learned about that myself, and there's very little doubt that McGarvey was the triggerman.
4
Prosecutors maintained that Beasley, an ex-convict and former street preacher, was the mastermind and triggerman in the scheme.
5
Both Demery and Green were convicted of first-degree murder -but accused each other of being the triggerman.
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Prosecutors said Beasley was the mastermind and triggerman in a scheme to rob the victims and steal their identities.
7
George Weinberg, when asked by Mr. Stryker if his brother had been a triggerman, asked politely what the word meant.
8
Bonanno member who joined Di Gregorio and became identified as top triggerman against Bonanno loyalists during Banana War in mid-1960s.
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A triggerman and reputed dope dealer, Mari was elected family boss during a sitdown in a restaurant in Manhattan in May 1969.
10
And of course I had, in some sense, been in that place when I murdered Lloyd Slate and took his job as Mab's triggerman.
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Prosecutors painted Brogan Rafferty, 17, as a knowing partner to Richard Beasley, the 53-year-old accused triggerman in the case.
12
He's a heck of a triggerman. Overall, the Saints rushed for 148 yards on 28 carries against a defense that entered the game No.
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"And Ben Patchett was the triggerman for her?"
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But Vincent wasn't the triggerman-notfor Lena, not for his father.
15
At the end, an insurgent triggerman waits -sometimes in a buried bunker.
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I just learned about that myself, and there's very little doubt that McGarvey was the triggerman.
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Translations for triggerman
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Triggerman through the time