HIT SQUAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hit squad mean? 

• HIT SQUAD (noun)
  The noun HIT SQUAD has 1 sense:

1. a team of assassins

  Familiarity information: HIT SQUAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIT SQUAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A team of assassins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("hit squad" is a kind of...):

squad; team (a cooperative unit (especially in sports))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hit squad"):

death squad (a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval))

Sparrow Unit (a hit squad of the New People's Army in the Philippines)