hired gun

Questions about hired gun

What does hired gun mean?

hired gun means "a professional killer who uses a gun".

What is another word for hired gun?

Close synonyms include gunman, gunslinger, gun, gun for hire, triggerman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hired gun a common word?

hired gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.