button man

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button man

noun button men

slang A contract killer; a professional assassin. I was called a "buffoon" in the paper of record, the New York Times, and the Washington Post described me fondly as "Clinton's gunsel," his button man

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@misc{button_man_2026,
  title = {button man},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/button%20man},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}