hit list

1. 1.

   a list of victims to be eliminated (as by murder)

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Questions about hit list

What does hit list mean?

hit list means "a list of victims to be eliminated (as by murder)".

Is hit list a common word?

hit list 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.