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assassin (noun)

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  • assassin — ► NOUN ▪ a person who assassinates someone. ORIGIN Arabic, hashish eater , with reference to a fanatical Muslim sect who ruled part of northern Persia 1094 1256 and were reputed to use hashish before murder missions …   English terms dictionary

  • assassin — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ attempted, would be ▪ hired, professional ▪ He was killed by a hired assassin. ▪ trained ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • assassin — noun (C) someone who murders an important person: Kennedy s supposed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • assassin — noun the presumed assassin, Oswald, was gunned down Syn: murderer, killer, gunman; executioner; informal hit man, hired gun; dated homicide …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • assassin — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin assassinus, from Arabic ḥashshāshīn, plural of ḥashshāsh worthless person, literally, hashish user, from hashīsh hashish Date: circa 1520 1. capitalized a member of a Shia Muslim sect who at the time of the Crusades …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • assassin bug — noun Date: 1895 any of a family (Reduviidae) of bugs that are usually predatory on insects though some (as a kissing bug) suck the blood of mammals called also reduviid …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • assassin bug — noun a bug from the family Reduviidae, that eats other insects ; some species may transmit Chagas disease to humans …   Wiktionary

  • assassin bug — noun a long legged predatory or bloodsucking bug occurring chiefly in the tropics, some kinds of which can transmit diseases to humans. [Family Reduviidae: numerous species.] …   English new terms dictionary

  • assassin — noun Syn: murderer, killer, gunman, executioner; informal hit man …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • assassin bug — noun a true bug: long legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals • Syn: ↑reduviid • Hypernyms: ↑heteropterous insect • Hyponyms: ↑conenose, ↑cone nosed bug, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • assassin fly — noun : robber fly …   Useful english dictionary

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