triggerman

Other forms of triggerman

plural

triggermans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about triggerman

What does triggerman mean?

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

How many syllables are in triggerman?

triggerman has 3 syllables and divides as trig-ger-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for triggerman?

Close synonyms include gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire. 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 triggerman a common word?

triggerman 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.