hit list

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hit list

noun hit lists

A roster of potential victims, especially a list of people to be killed. After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who
A similar list of people to be approached for a charitable donation.
Any list of things to be acquired or conquered. Three of these were highly unexpected and narrow: Kettering, Wellingborough and Northampton South. Two were high on Labour's hit list and won by five-figure majorities, Corby and Northampton North – in the latter case by exactly 10,000.
Synonym of hotlist.
Similar: hotlist

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@misc{hit_list_2026,
  title = {hit list},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hit%20list},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}