OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31292

gunman

/ˈɡʌnmən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pistolera • pistolero
A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.
"I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."
Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of fla…
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