gunman

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noun shooter of gun

noun. professional killer

noun. hired killer

noun. hoodlum

noun. hoodlum

1620s, from gun (n.) + man (n.). In early American English use, especially of Indian warriors.

The second gunman banged at the shadow where Madden was hid.

You are known from one end of the country to the other as a gunman.

But the gray eyes, hard as those of a gunman, showed no trace of intoxication.

A gunman he was, from Texas, and—well, they carried the gambler out.

This Bandy Walker was a gunman and a rough-and-tumble fighter.

When they couldn't make me out a thief, they made me out a gunman.

Why, a villain might get a gunman to shoot somebody, but not to put up all that elaboration.

I guess I can answer for your third gunman, Scotty, the Marshal said tersely.

The gunman let go of the gun and Malone, spurning it, let it drop.

McGee, however, glared at both Mawson and the gunman, though none of them said a word.