hit job

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hit job

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noun hit jobs · hit-job · hitjob

slang A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes. Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan.
slang A publication launched to damage the reputation of person or company. One of the first critics to latch onto Where's the Rest of Me? was the journalist Jessica Mitford. In February of 1965, Esquire’s Harold Hayes assigned Mitford a profile of Reagan as a politician—a potentially valuable piece of national exposure. But Reagan stopped cooperating when he sensed, correc

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@misc{hit_job_2026,
  title = {hit job},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hit%20job},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}