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hit squad
noun
Slang.
- a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- a group of political terrorists.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hit squad1
First recorded in 1975–80
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The country's justice system has been turned into a "political" hit squad, shamelessly intervening in a nation's right to choose its own leaders.
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“The political hit squad in the Texas House failed again in their persecution of Ken Paxton.”
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It was still dark out, and many patients at the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank were still sleeping, when the hit squad arrived.
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Evelyn Vega, also filed suit this week with similar allegations about a “hit squad” and a revoked promotion.
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Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition.
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