Usually means: Executor of unpleasant or violent tasks.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hatchet man: Merriam-Webster
  2. hatchet man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hatchet man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hatchet man: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hatchet man: Vocabulary.com
  6. hatchet-man, hatchet man: Wordnik
  7. hatchet man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hatchet man: Wiktionary
  9. hatchet man: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hatchet man: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hatchet man: Dictionary.com
  12. Hatchet man (disambiguation), Hatchet man (idiom), Hatchet man, The Hatchet Man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hatchet man: Rhymezone
  14. hatchet man: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hatchet man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hatchet man: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. hatchet man: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Hatchet man: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hatchet man: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hatchet man: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (hatchet man)

noun:  A male professional killer or gunman.
noun:  (US, historical) A male hatchet-wielding participant in a Chinese-American tong war.
noun:  (colloquial, idiomatic) A male who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees.

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